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...Christ"; Bed Reader. When Howard Hughes sold Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have...
Last week Reader's Digest published a noteworthy article called "-And Sudden Death." Its author was a Manhattan newshawk named Joseph C. Furnas. The article was thus prefaced: Like the gruesome spectacle of a bad automobile accident itself, the realistic details of this article will nauseate some readers. Those who find themselves thus affected at the outset are cautioned against reading this article in its entirety...
...front and rear bumpers interlock, requiring an acetylene torch to cut them apart. ... A leg or arm stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost (2?each), with a special price of $1.50 per hundred...
...whoever was responsible for the account of the Central Conference of American Rabbis [TIME, July 8], TIME-reader Fern Pels (who, incidentally, speaks a slick Yiddish) would like to point out one refreshingly asinine mistake...
...Perry, the cable superintendent at Midway Island, is a consistent reader of TIME. Regularly once a week he takes out one of the accumulated issues of TIME and reads it through?a ritual from which he never deviates...