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When the coroners and hospital trainmen arrived to search for the 24 dead and the 121 injured, scores of shaken wordless, half-clad survivors still wandered aimlessly in the mountain dawn. Nobody knew what had caused the Red Arrow to leave the track. For the moment, Conductor McCormick was too preoccupied with his strange presentiment to care. In the Pullman he had hesitated to enter, a half dozen people had died...
...next New Year, that elusively collective personality, Hollywood, should reconsider a maxim which must be on its resolution back-list: leave well enough alone. Given Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, and Jimmy Durante as ingredients, the average tired aesthete would probably plan something with the two girls, standing artistic but wordless, on each side of the screen, with Durante doing the rest. Not so Hollywood...
...Beckmann sometimes talks like this-like a mystic or a philosopher, but his best ideas are wordless. They come from what he calls "the labor of the eyes." Says he: "If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible...
...surged and swayed around the grisly spot. One woman emptied a pistol into the Duce's body. "Five shots!" she screamed. "Five shots for my five murdered sons!" Others cried: "He died too quickly! He should have suffered!" But the hate of many was wordless. They could only spit...
Round-faced, 210-pound Crockett Johnson dropped his real name, David Johnson Leisk (pronounced Lisk), because he got tired of spelling it out. He began Barnaby while contributing a weekly wordless strip to Collier's. Barnaby is frankly addressed to adults, often surprises Johnson by appealing to children too. The reason, he guesses, is that children like to side with Barnaby Baxter against Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, archetypical pragmatists against whose earthbound minds the Barnaby strip is directed...