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...gossips, they are infiltrating each other's lots with company spies disguised as extras. Following standard practice, Paramount has already surmounted the first production hurdle: picking and discarding various titles. The chosen one: Top Secret. It is no top secret that the picture will be masterminded by cinema wizard Hal Wallis (Casablanca, Love Letters), whose signature is pace and palaver. Estimated cost...
Married. Mervyn LeRoy, 45, whose cigarish direction has turned out many a garish cinemoneymaker (Little Caesar, Tugboat Annie, Wizard of Oz); and Kathryn Prest Byfield Spiegel, 41, Chicago socialite; both for the third time; in Bel-Air, California...
Tokyo's 41st Division basketball team upset the dope by whipping Okinawa's Flyers (Long Island University's 1942 wizard team almost intact), then flattened Hawaii for the championship...
About 5,000 years later, a lesser eruption produced a 3,000-foot "pup volcano" which now projects from Crater Lake, forming Wizard Island. If another active period is beginning, it may raise another pup. But a full-size volcano is unlikely...
...King Clode, who ran the place, had something on his mind and he wanted to hold a conference. He summoned the Royal Wizard, who appeared in a cloud of smoke. "Just come in the room like anybody else," bawled the king indignantly, "Bad enough ... to appear in a flash of lightning . . . smells up the whole castle." "Yes, Sire," said the Wizard...