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Foolish Notion. In Seattle, Eric Mackey slashed his left wrist, drank down a bottle of disinfectant, jumped seven stories from a hotel room, had his plunge broken by a jutting marquee. At the local hospital he commented: "Kind of foolish thing to do. I could have killed myself...
...Asked the Advisory Board of the OWMR to undertake a study of the annual wage. The committee promptly got to work. The study will be directed by U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston...
...this terrific armada over France and Belgium. Fifteen minutes before I had to jump I started thinking over my life. I went over everything I ever ate and did and I finished up in twelve minutes. I had three minutes left so I started to read a book by Eric Linklater...
Short (43 minutes) and inexpensive (about $30,000), the film is simply titled United States. It was written, directed, and produced by greying, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Eric Ambler, author of distinguished and popular thrillers (Journey Into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). To gather his material, Ambler spent about five weeks in the U.S. viewing close to a million feet of film, spent many more poring over volumes of Americana. The final product is a composite of snatches from U.S. films-by Pare Lorentz, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the MARCH OF TIME-and original scenes photographed in Wembley...
...satisfied with the limited facilities extended to reporters by the Soviet Government, and none denies the truth of certain statements in Mr. White's book [but] for the totality of its effect . . . we feel it contains far too many inaccuracies ... a highly biased and misleading report." Eric Johnston, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who had taken White to Russia with him and who does not always talk in public the way he does to "off-the-record" groups, was moved to scoot to safety: "White overemphasized the bad . . . minimized the good. . . . Moreover, there is a generous dash...