Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where Hight Was Right. The late John Holliday, founder of the Indianapolis News, once found height spelled hight in one of his editorials. He stormed into the composing room, where the foreman showed him the word spelled that way in his own copy. Barked Holliday: "If that's the way I spelled it, that's correct." It was hight in the News until a new stylebook came out last year...
...play really scores as the whopping success story of a ruthless charmer who begins as a small shopkeeper faced with bankruptcy and winds up a potentate and peer of the realm. With bright humor and a sort of icy gaiety, Holt gambles, soft-soaps, bludgeons, picklocks his way out of scrapes and up the ladder. And the play's interest really lies much less in whom he does it for than in how he does it; the Edward role seems a bit of a phony as well as a phantom...
...progressive Sarah Lawrence College. Florence wanted to become a doctor, so that she could go back to the reservation to help cure her people of tuberculosis and trachoma. Last week Florence was home again, without getting to New York. She had tasted white man's poison along the way...
Died. Thomas Armat, 81, inventor of the Vitascope (film projector), which paved the way for the modern movie industry; in Washington. He regarded his invention as "just a side issue" and agreed to let Thomas A. Edison's name be attached to it for commercial reasons (but Armat got rich on the patent rights). Last March Hollywood awarded him a special Oscar for the "debt...
...River is a yarn about the first cattle drive over the Chisholm Trail, from deep Texas into Abilene, Kans., soon after the Civil War. It is also the story of the fierce character duel which develops, along the way, between the tyrannical boss cattleman (John Wayne) and his intransigent foster son (Montgomery Clift). Mr. Clift takes time out for a little romance with a "dancing girl"*(Joanne Dru), but essentially this is a movie about...