Word: smalltown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when Franklin Roosevelt's special train rolled into Bismarck, N. Dak. in the course of its travels through the drought area, it also rolled into a story which brought nationwide attention to a smalltown newspaper. Aboard the Presidential Pullmans were placed scores of copies of the Fargo (N. Dak.) Forum, whose front page displayed a strange yarn. Because a corps of the nation's nimblest newshawks were also on the train, Republican editors throughout the land were soon rubbing their hands over a dispatch which, on quick reading, seemed to convict the New Deal...
...Merchant Marine is a classic U. S. industrial example of the smalltown boy who did not make good in the big city. A century ago the famed clippers sailed out of Salem, Newburyport, Baltimore to capture the oceans of the world for two decades, carry 90%, of U. S. trade. By 1914 the U. S. Merchant Marine was carrying less than 10% of U. S. trade. Since the War it has been kept afloat only by constant Government help. Last week, when President Roosevelt signed the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, experts thought that Congress had finally offered enough help...
...Town, Me., Enterprise, she had won a $12 prize for a piece on the operation and care of sewing machines. The article, though, was not run. After that she married a fellow-graduate of the University of Maine and went South to be a mother, cook, seamstress, smalltown housewife. But she never got over her ambition to be a writer as well. She ground out short stories. They were all rejected. In late-at-night, snatched moments over four years she slowly tapped out a novel. It was about a Maine farm, the kind of country she had grown...
...Wilderness! is notable also for one of those curiosities of billing that cinema contracts sometimes bring about. Wallace Beery, billed as the star, plays what amounts to an expanded bit-part. He is Uncle Sid, affable and alcoholic parasite who sponges a living in the family of Nat Miller, smalltown newspaper publisher. Nat Miller is played by Lionel Barrymore whose part, though written down considerably from the play, is still an important one and who gets second billing. The real lead (Richard) is Eric Linden, who gets no special billing at all, worked in the picture as a free lance...
Creator of Philbert is Frank Owen, 28, an easy-going smalltown Texan who rousted about in oil fields, refineries, lumber camps, until he got a job cartooning sports and editorials on the Dallas News. He went East, free-lanced for Judge, Life, Satevepost, New York American, landed a place on Collier's two years ago to do general cartooning. Philbert came to life when Cartoonist Owen discovered he "had been drawing him all the time and didn't know it." Many of his best ideas come from his pretty young wife, Swedish-born Vera Blomquist. The Owens live...