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...night, when Bowland was away, 18 hooded Klan bullies set up a fiery cross in front of his house. Bowland's pretty wife, Bertha, who is pregnant, came out, kicked the burning brand over, and shouted at the gang: "Get out, you yellow cowards!" Ten days later Bowland came home after a basketball game and found his wife crouched behind a hedge, a shotgun at the ready, while another gang-unhooded this time-milled about the house...
...show-a situation comedy-gave the Nelsons a brand-new career. Most of the show's charm can be credited to Ozzie's sweating thoroughness, and doing what comes naturally. Ozzie & Harriet are Mr. & Mrs. Average Family-on & off the air. The show's children, Ricky, 7, and David, 11, are named and characterized in the image of the Nelsons' own two sons. For accuracy, Ozzie checks all lines with the originals. Emmy Lou, the show's bobbysoxer, was discovered in a Hollywood swimming pool. Harriet's radio mother is a direct steal from...
Jeanne Grain has sensitive eyes, but she uses them with as little restraint as a ham singer's tremolo; her considerable charm needs good direction. All Dan Dailey needs is a good picture. Oscar Levant gets along all right, good show or bad, with his peculiar brand of vinegar. One obvious tip for those who make would-be "nostalgic" musical movies: the old arrangements for the old songs are fully as nostalgic as the melodies. Frequently the fancy new arrangements are terrible; always, they sabotage the nostalgia...
...done, the glass had to be cleaned perfectly. The trick was to cover the surface with a "monomolecular layer" (one molecule thick) of a fatty acid to keep dust off the glass. This process sounds formidably scientific, but in practice the glass was covered with a well-advertised brand of hair oil (essentially an emulsion of lanolin), and the excess wiped off carefully with special wool flannel...
...Chamber promptly sent one of its men scurrying to compile a list. Such attention to the smallest business, plus a special brand of California civic spirit, has made the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce one of the most successful forces of its kind in the world. Last week, it totted up its achievements for the past year. It had 1) helped get freight-rate reductions on steel from Geneva, Utah; 2) promoted a $1 billion state highway program with special benefits for Los Angeles; and 3) persuaded 200 new enterprises, with about 7,800 new jobs, to settle...