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...biggest break in 1901, when William Randolph Hearst lured her to Manhattan. She carried a wad of "get-home money" in her stocking, for her first six weeks in the big city. But she stayed, to become the greatest sob sister of her day. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the Hall-Mills case, no big murder was complete without her. In 1920 she tired of it, told her city editor that if she ever covered another murder it would be his, and flounced off to New Orleans to concentrate on heart-mending...
...nearly two years Tito's men hunted their arch-enemy General Draja Mihailovich through the crags and ravines of the Bosnian mountains. Early in the winter they discovered his snowbound hideout, kept him on ice until the thaw, then pounced. Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army...
...railway line from Seven Islands on the St. Lawrence northward along the Moisie River. This will provide a lifeline to Ungava, will cut shipping costs on materials to build a townsite and possibly an airfield. The company's chief handicap: Ungava's early freeze-up and late thaw limit mining operations to about three months a year...
...January Thaw (adapted by William Roos from Bellamy Partridge's novel; produced by Michael Todd) celebrates a small, farcical civil war inside a Connecticut farmhouse. It is, indeed, a House Divided-between a city family that had bought and remodeled it, and a country family that, by the terms of the sale, could always move back in, and did. The two clans squabble over everything from politics to plumbing, from who-owns-what to who-sleeps-where. The city slickers always get the worst of it: their living room is commandeered for funerals and littered with pigs; they freeze...
...January Thaw uses one of those broad-comedy situations that can be funny for an act but is almost always fatal for an evening. Here very little is funny, even at the start. Beyond grinding out increasingly frantic variations on a single theme, January Thaw is always corny and often cobwebby in its humor...