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Detective Story (Paramount) is the latest in the current harvest of high-quality movies that have been transplanted from the stage or the library (see CURRENT & CHOICE). Though the film rarely ventures out of the single indoor set that housed Sidney Kingsley's 1949 Broadway hit, Detective Story makes an even better movie than a play...
...standing still, or slipping backward. It's advancing. Turkish agricultural land is expanding; this year there is an alltime high of 10.5 million hectares under cultivation. The Turk is a hard worker and he's used to sacrifice. Last month, the central Anatolian plain was seething with harvest activity. Though 1,283 ECA combines have been imported since 1948, most of the threshing is done by ancient methods. Oxen pull sleds, equipped with sharp flint points, around & around in the harvested wheat stocks, cutting them apart. Then the peasant and his family toss the grain into...
...Random Harvest. In Denver, cops made the pinch on general principles when they spotted a car containing: 1) James Yohe, 2) Charles Crider, 3) two women, 4) a toy wagon, 5) a toy tractor, 6) a wooden horse, 7) a white rabbit, 8) a quart of whisky, 9) a red hen, 10) a garbage can, 11) a black hen, 12) a gamecock, 13) a deodorized skunk...
Just as the harvest season was getting under way last month, Guatemala's cocky Communist union bosses saw a chance to exploit the situation, though it meant hitting at the government. They called a strike on the government's most valuable farm, 11,000-acre Finca La Concepción, threatened walkouts on other federal farms. Last week, the government finally agreed to pay the demanded 80?-a-day minimum wage on Concepción and a few other farms. On most of the government's 126 farms, wages will remain the lowest in the country...
Atlantic City paraded another year's harvest of beauty. Top of the crop and Miss America for 1952: a statuesque Westerner, Colleen Kay Hutchins of Salt Lake City, 25 years old, 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighing 143 lbs., oldest and huskiest girl ever to capture the crown, the tallest winner in six years, the first blonde in 13. Her take: the usual $5,000 scholarship plus whatever she can make in a grueling year of personal appearances and testimonials. Her ambition: the usual stage career...