Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Able Newspaperman McCullagh decided to get tough first with Toronto's Liberal Star (circ. 369,276), longtime rival of the Telegram, and Canada's biggest newspaper. The Star charged that the Telegram had lost its independence and that McCullagh was a front man "for outside influence and ownership." McCullagh snapped that the Telegram deal was his own. "That fellow Hindmarsh [Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, Star president]," he roared, ". . . is so ugly that if he ever bit himself he'd get hydrophobia...
Army's highly rated line was outcharged by underdog Navy (apparently nobody had given Navy sufficient credit for the hardening quality of its tough schedule, including such top opponents as Michigan, Notre Dame and California, which Army did not have to face). The Cadets' two prize running backs-Gil Stephenson and Bobby Stuart-earned no new medals; both were below par due to injuries. It took the wonderfully accurate passing arm of Quarterback Arnold Galiffa to keep the Cadets in the game. Two Galiffa passes set up two touchdowns, and Army went ahead at half time...
Editor Martha Stout had a different reason. "None of those boys knew a thing about publishing," she said bitterly. "It's pretty tough these days even for publishers who know what they're doing...
Unfaithfully Yours often trips over its own snarled plot lines and falls flat. But Rex Harrison gives a sly, buoyant performance in a tough, wordy role. And some of Writer-Director-Producer Sturges' whimsy and brisk dialogue are worth the wait through the dull spots. In a cast heavy with "characters," Edgar Kennedy, Lionel Stander and Rudy Vallee stand out. Vallee is especially good as a stuffed-shirt multimillionaire...
...Tough little Willie Bioff, big-shot labor racketeer, was testifying. "We had about 20 percent of Hollywood when we got in trouble. If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent. I had Hollywood dancin' to my tune." Willie's compelling tune was extortion; the insistent drumbeat in the background was the threat of physical violence. Studio employees and motion-picture-machine operators joined his labor union-or else. Hollywood studio czars chipped in millions to stop the music -and keep their studios running. What finally "loused up" Willie...