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...bystander in the background was, at worst, only a jackass...
...lank, soft-spoken Californian named Truman Bailey could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...
...early to be sure, but perhaps a new school in the American novel is in the making. The Los Angeles school, it might be called, for its two principals, James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler, are residents of Los Angeles County. And it is against the background of Southern California that they both have set their tautly-wound, sense-shocking novels. The theme that runs throughout their work is common to both men: the tough people of this twentieth century world, the people with the inteness desire for possession, the ones who murder for money and kill for love...
Many broadcasters view Cliff Durr as an alarming threat to free radio, a harbinger of Government ownership. His background only partially qualifies him as a socialist reformer. Born to an aristocratic Alabama family, he won a Rhodes scholarship in 1920, earned his degree in jurisprudence and his "blue" (letter) in rugby at Oxford. Back in Alabama, he became a corporation attorney, married Justice Hugo Black's sister-in-law. Some time after joining RFC's legal division, he tied with a colleague in a stenographers' vote for the "biggest hayseed" on the staff. He was a director...
...even the score by throwing in an extra helping of Glamor on sets and costumes. One of the first postwar productions to splurge on lavish, prewar-style props, the picture was shot over five acres of lot covered with $300,000 worth (pressagents' valuation) of Oriental rococo background. Notable eye-filling items: the King's four gold-&-diamond crowns ($84,000) and 23 silk-&-brocade costumes ($23,000); a coronation scene costing $80,000; a well-filled harem stocked with the loveliest of 200 lovely extras; Linda Darnell in the Siamese equivalent of a sarong...