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...bald, fat little Hanns Eisler. What seemed to interest it most was a long list of "certain prominent persons" who, it charged, had tried to help Eisler enter the U.S. The list sparkled with glittery names: Radio Commentator Raymond Swing, onetime Willkieman Russell Davenport, Hollywood Director William Dieterle, Columnist Dorothy Thompson and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Minister King that decontrol of flour was "an unforgivable crime against the people." An Ottawa councilman cried: "We are losing the peace. ... It is such things as this that give rise to Communism." Labor organizations warned that higher prices would inevitably mean higher wages. Sean Edwin, a Montreal Gazette columnist, cracked: "If the ... trend continues, dollars to doughnuts will be even money...
...Noggins, a stout, pawky woman, came out to Canada before the first World War and settled near Saanichton, on Vancouver Island. She has an uncle in Liverpool, a cousin in Seattle, but her best friend is whimsical Columnist-Editor Bruce Hutchison, who lives near Saanichton too, and who helps run the Winnipeg Free Press by remote control...
Broadway Producer Jed Harris (Broadway, Coquette, Our Town) was not in the mood for love. "There's been a decline in the quality of writing," he told Columnist Ward Morehouse. "What do you expect, when Moss Hart can make $280,000 from the movies on a flop?" Otherwise: "Clifford Odets isn't writing because he can't. George Kaufman isn't getting any younger. ... Philip Barry never wrote anything that would draw me into a theater. The best thing Maxwell Anderson ever wrote was Ingrid Bergman." Swore Play-Producer Harris: "I hope I never have...
Grenadine Etching is a lampoon on the big-bosomed heroines of lending-library historical fiction-seemingly a sure-fire subject. The author, a Scripps-Howard columnist, must have thought so, because he didn't work hard enough...