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Last week the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities which has constantly astounded itself, astounded even its critics by turning up some useful information about the U. S. Communist Party. Congressman Martin Dies and his investigators achieved this feat by aping G-Man Edgar Hoover and Treasury tax sleuths, going to bank records for telltale facts...
...before the War Office's own propaganda agency (under oldtime Hackwriter Ian Hay) got out the third or "official version" (see p. 15). Foreign correspondents were driven into a frenzy by the slow and clumsy handling of news of the torpedoing of the Athenia; Britain's feat-of-the-week, the bombings of German naval bases, was announced as laconically as the results of target practice; in line with British belief that false hopes should not be raised, French troop movements on the Western Front were reported with so little detail they sounded downright dreamy. While Germany...
Last week husky, 45-year-old Michael Lerner (Lerner Shops), who hunts and fishes round-the-globe, round-the-calendar, accomplished an unprecedented swordfishing feat. Off Nova Scotia's picturesque Louisburg, Angler Lerner boated two broadbill...
...Hedy and Screenwriter Ben Hecht over to Producer Sam Zimbalist, fresh from Tarzan Finds A Son. Practical Mr. Zimbalist, correctly figuring that audiences would like a picture as much like Algiers as possible, let the camera eye ogle Lamarr's uncanny physical charms, duplicated Producer Wanger's feat of making the Lamarr torpidity seem exotic. Somewhat bowled over himself, Producer Zimbalist observed: "Hedy is just a nice girl, not at all vain, and a hard worker. She has a natural allure. ... If anything, we've attempted to tone down the sex appeal she exudes. . . . All through...
...wager Phileas Fogg, cucumbrous hero of Novelist Jules Verne's best seller, circled the globe in 80 days. This fictive feat remained a record until 1889, when the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...