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There were a few encouraging signs. A small independent producer had just turned out a promising feature for $500,000. Called Obsession, it had been brought in under its budget by Director Edward Dmytryk, one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten." The bigger producers, including Rank, had been making economies...
Campbell's hobby is cooking (he is reputedly able to turn Britain's austerity rations into tasty dishes). His professional obsession is interservice cooperation. Says Campbell: "Duplication of effort means jealousies and diversion of effort. Canada is just not big enough to take it." Privately, to the horror...
The Enforcer. The Al Capone and Waxie Gordon stories will remind readers past their 30s that Prohibition racketeers, large & small, had come to be an accepted part of most U.S. communities. To get Capone became almost an obsession with President Herbert Hoover. Said Hoover to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew...
In a letter published in the current issue of American Artist, he tried to say it in words as well. "It has always seemed to me," he began, "that the things man... builds are more of a picture of man than man himself." Trudging inland from Omaha Beach, Gleitsmann got...
Antonio Pallante was no workaday, hireling killer; he belonged to the fevered race of political assassins who act alone. In solitude, Antonio Pallante nursed an obsession. The target of his hatred and his plans was suave, astute Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italy's Communist Party.