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...brawny, hot-tempered Westerner named Lucius T. Russell Sr. Setting himself up in Newark some 15 years ago, Publisher Russell attracted instant attention with a local vice crusade, splashed pictures of Newark brothels with names of the property owners daily on the Ledger's front.page. His crack rewrite man was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, later to win the Pulitzer Prize for his European correspondence for the old New York Evening Post (TIME...
Scene is a poor district of north Dublin during the 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. Mr. O'Casey has no illusions about that shabby affray. His Commandant Jack Clitheroe of the Irish Citizen Army is a crack-brained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. An idealistic Socialist called "The Covey" does not have the courage to go out into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief...
...South America's crack navies: Argentina, Brazil and Chile...
...soon as it becomes apparent that Evelyn Prentice has a plot, seasoned cinemaddicts will easily guess the rest. The fact that the blackmailing poet keeps a revolver and a diary in his desk clearly indicates a murder to come. That John Prentice is a crack lawyer suggests a courtroom scene in which he will extricate his wife from difficulties. A squeaking little Prentice (Cora Sue Collins) guarantees that her parents will be estranged and reconciled. Although Evelyn Prentice is far from being an experiment, in either art or advertising, its conventional coils are expertly twisted and untwisted. For the most...
...More than 1,200 Pullman cars have been equipped to date, and another 1,000 will be finished by the end of 1935. The company has developed its own air-conditioning machinery but a few railroads prefer to install other types. The 141 Pullmans used in Baltimore & Ohio's crack trains are all fitted with York machinery. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has 30 Pullmans equipped by Carrier Corp. However, Pullman has outfitted about one-half of the 1,400 air-conditioned diners, club and lounge cars owned by the railroads. Such special work accounted for no small part...