Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent trip to the Pacific Coast I met Hollywood Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., who told me that his forthcoming picture, Conspirator, had been inspired by a story he had read in TIME. He took me to see several sequences from it, and I asked him in turn to write me about the chain of events that led to its being produced. Here is his story...
Founded at the turn of the century by Professor Barrett Wendell--in whose honor a yearly prize is still given to concentrators--the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature offers generalarts-inclined students an opportunity for a varied and unspecialized study; with the advantages of a thorough-going tutorial system and a majority of honor students in the enrollment...
There are terrifying scenes of human suffering in "Monsieur Vincent. Hundreds of pitiful creatures press hopefully into the St. Lazare hospital; the priest cannot bear to turn them away, even though the mission is overcrowded and the charity workers are overburdened. Saint Vincent finds reason for bitterness elsewhere as well: the society ladies from whom he gets financial support are frivolous and patronizing; his own loyal co-workers at St. Lazare shrink from providing aid for a child "conceived...
...Connecticut Yankee" is the kind of film which you either view with mild amusement or dislike roundly. This is because it is culled from an excellent book and some people, finding the picture not up to the stratospheric standard of the book, thereupon turn violently against it. I, being merely a partisan and not a worshipper of Sam Clemens, could still scrape up a few chuckles...
These people happen to be the friends or relatives of people who own cows. And cows eventually produce butter. The only trouble is that butter is considerably more expensive than oleo. Margarine, in turn, is normally an unpalatable white. So the butter people, who have been in business longer, have pressured in a mass of laws to keep the margarine industry from coloring its product, for they thought colored oleo could put a big hole in their business...