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...Tribune when the war broke out, he returned to the U.S. soon after Dunkirk, after twelve years in Europe. Since then he has made a series of U.S. lecture tours, To his stranger's eyes the U.S. had many symptoms of the political disease which he had seen destroy France...
...when True Story (priced at 15?) found its sales slipping in competition with 10? magazines, distributors were offered bonuses for keeping up their sales quotas. As the bonuses were scaled it was made profitable for distributors to "eat" copies-i.e., to destroy unsold copies instead of returning them, since the bonus was big enough to leave something over after a distributor had paid for the copies he destroyed. Because the MacFadden account was a profitable one, the distributors "ate" copies and liked...
Iraqi artillery, these reports said, is constantly shelling the base in an effort to destroy its power house, which provides electricity for the wire barricades...
Last week 14 resourceful songwriters filed suit against NBC, CBS, National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcast Music, Inc. for $1,215,500 on the ground that while fighting American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers the broadcasters had conspired to destroy the livelihood of the composers. Forthwith ASCAP repudiated the suit. Said a spokesman: "We have plenty of troubles of our own without worrying about what those guys are going...
...Great Dictator" opens with a World War I sequence. The Big Bertha cannon is being aimed to destroy the great Cathedral at the center of Paris--but the shot succeeds only in blasting a little privy in the suburbs. Charlie Chaplin, himself, suffered a similar misfortune with this picture. He planned to pierce the Nazis with barbs of wit and make people laugh at the weakness and foolishness of Herr Hitler...