Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Quincy Howe is a cultured, loquacious, birdlike Bostonian with a famous father (Pulitzer Prize Biographer Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe), a shrewd editorial sense, a mercurial mind. For twelve years he applied it to foreign affairs for The Living Age; for the last five it has glided around the offices of Simon & Schuster. For years Editor Howe was the No. 1 sniffer-out of British influence and propaganda in the U. S. His England Expects Every American To Do His Duty (1937) was hailed and reprinted in the Anglophobe Hearst press; his Blood Is Cheaper Than Water (1939) glibly tracked...
...Houghton of Winthrop took the lead soon after passing the halfway mark, and turned in the winning time of ten minutes and three quarters, only a second better than that of his teammate, Fred Phinney. First of the Dudley runners to cross the line was Tom McElligot, who finished in third place...
...Mark of Zorro (20th Century-Fox). With an arthritic imitation of Douglas Fairbanks' sword-and-horseplay, Tyrone Power undertakes the leading role in a remake of Fairbanks' 1920 classic about a California Robin Hood who made things too hot for a dastard Spanish colonial governor. To pacify the Hays office, the Z-mark is carved only once on real flesh- on a man's chest instead of his forehead. (The Fairbanks version precipitated a nationwide rage for Z-cutting among small fry.) Basil Rathbone furnishes the dueling opposition for Power, Linda Darnell the fond glances...
Soon after Hitler came to power, Joseph Paul Goebbels, Ph.D., asked best-selling Oskar Maria Graf to become his official Nazi novelist. Replied Graf: "What have I done to deserve this disgrace? Burn my books! I would consider it an undying mark of shame if my books were not burned by you." Burned they were, and homeless Novelist Graf has wandered ever since-Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia, the U. S. In The Life of My Mother, "a biographical novel," Outcast Oskar Maria Graf seeks a way back to his spiritual verities...
...Louis B. Mayer to read, and approve of, "Escape." The story of a woman's rescue from a Nazi concentration camp was bound to fit in beautifully with Hollywood's new taste for social significance; and filmed with the inimitable MGM touch of authenticity, it could not miss its mark. It did not, but neither did it displace "The Mortal Storm" as by far the most credible and exciting Nazi-blaster ever flashed across the American screen...