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Hold That Blonde! (Paramount) is a direct lineal descendant of one of Hollywood's biggest breadwinners during the '20s: the Harold Lloyd comedies of confusion. Eddie Bracken, in a pretty good modern imitation of the Lloyd hurlyburly, teeters precariously on the ledge of a skyscraper, wrestles with a drunk at the frail end of a flagpole and is chased through a maze of hotel corridors by a sinister set of hoodlums...
Wealth & a Conscience. Moneyed by mines, electric power and oil deals, Spruille Braden was another rich man on the Hudson in the late '20s. His menage at Riverdale, N.Y., included a stable of South American prizefighters who slept over the garage...
...more determined groups followed it. Within a decade such nationalists as the smooth-faced, smooth-talking Soekarno, a Bandung Technical University engineering graduate, and Mohammed Hatta, who went to Amsterdam University, were getting bold ideas. They had heard of things like Communism, self-determination, revolution. In the '20s their exuberance landed both briefly in jail. Soekarno, who uses no other name, was a founder of the lusty P.N.I, (for Partai Nasional Indonesia), which the Dutch in 1929 slapped down. Even so-except for his later career-he might have become Indonesia's George Washington...
...business was almost triple the mark of booming 1940. But Reno, and divorce mills like Miami and Hot Springs, Ark., no longer had a corner on the quick-divorce market. People were buying divorces every where almost as matter-of-factly as they had bought moonshine in the '20s. The U.S. divorce rate had virtually doubled since Pearl Harbor...
During the '20s, when British Novelist Aldous Huxley was writing sexy, sophisticated novels (Point Counter Point), the fashionable thing was humanistic materialism. By this week it was plain that the times and Author Huxley have changed: the new vogue is mysticism...