Word: wastebasketful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Correspondent (United Artists) will confuse cinemaddicts who may have heard that it began as a filming of Vincent Sheean's Personal History. Producer Walter Wanger paid Sheean $10,000 for his thoughtful book, set two writers to adapting it, dropped the result in his wastebasket. Then he hired John Howard Lawson to write a new script on the adventures of a U. S. newspaperman in Spain and Germany, engaged Warner's star director, William Dieterle (Pasteur, Zola). Before the picture got into production, the Spanish War was over. Wanger paid Dieterle $50,000, started over again with...
...blooms, is nipped and withers in rapid succession. In the course of this brief life-cycle, a generally noisy world is treated to a lot of essentially peaceful noise for a change. Sundry streets, side-walks, students and Yard Cops receive a generous dosage of nothing worse than a wastebasket full of water; that the streets and sidewalks needed it, is fairly well established. Finally, about sixty Cambridge cops are treated to their favorite out-door sport--there isn't one who wouldn't trade a whole season of Policemen's Balls for a chance to strike the fear...
...hard-boiled U. S. politics, Socialists generally rate as soft-boiled academics. Only a few, like Dan Hoan, who managed to hold Milwaukee for 24 years (see p. 22), have had any truck with practical politics. Persistently idealistic, the Socialist Party has become largely a wastebasket for disgruntled liberals to throw away their votes...
...Broadcast" declined to take sides in the late Spanish war, which most of the Catholic press believed "holy." When nearly every other diocesan paper ran the heavily loaded dispatches, with canned headlines, of the official U. S. Catholic news agency, skeptical Father Rowan tossed many in the wastebasket, rewrote many another...
...office in Baltimore, Md. to Washington, and bounded into a meeting of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. In a scarily matter-of-fact voice he revealed a formula for an explosive so horrific that the alarmed Senators, before they adjourned, burned the minutes of the meeting in a metal wastebasket...