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...fall of 1938 The Fifth Column appeared in book form, won critical acclaim. Producers again started dickering; to one of them according to Broadwayfarer Leonard Lyons, Hemingway angrily replied: "Fifth Column, sixth draft, seventh producer, eighth refusal." Soon after, he agreed to let Hollywood Writer Benjamin Glazer rewrite the play. Last December the Theatre Guild announced that it would produce the play, with Franchot Tone as lead. Last week (with the financial assistance of Billy Rose) The Fifth Column opened at last on Broadway...
...line. When Huey was making a name for himself as a young lawyer, handling compensation cases for hillbillies hurt in Winn Parish's new lumber mills (1915), Sam Jones was working his way through Louisiana State University. When Huey Long was baiting the Interests-especially Standard Oil-claiming draft exemption because he was a notary public, and proclaiming that only suckers would fight, plodding Sam Jones, true to his commonplace name, was drilling away in the army. (His boyhood sweetheart, pretty, vivacious Louise Gambrell, meanwhile married somebody else...
...Popular move to draft Mr. Hoover for President...
...hours after it came from the press. Exclaimed Publisher Johan Hansson, who had carefully expurgated the Swedish text before it appeared: "What a strange kind of democracy we now have in this country!" As last month ended, Minister Westman had permission from the Cabinet to draft a new and drastic law defining responsibilities of the press...
...announcement of the final decree of the court was made by A. Mercer Biddle of Philadelphia. Mercer was rector of the Trinity Church in New port. The original draft of the will was made...