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...those eight months the white-crested Hoosier has endured much. Like a movie-serial heroine, he has been politically shot, stabbed, poisoned, garroted, sawed into short lengths, burned, decimated, smothered, bumped off, rubbed out. He has been "given the business...
...outshone by Griffin, Shinola shoe polish also took to the air last Saturday (10 to 10:30 a.m. E.S.T., NBC-Red) with Play Actor Burgess Meredith (a radio serial alumnus) in a weekly series called Lincoln Highway. Last week's pedestrian episode along the famed 3,400-mile, coast-to-coast road was a low-budget It Happened One Night, whose boy-girl hitchhikers fall in love in a barn near Valparaiso (Ind.), instead of in a tourist cabin...
Nobody was more surprised than MGM officials to wake up one night to find that Love Finds Andy Hardy was being enthusiastically received in all the best movie houses. Here was MGM with a serial gold mine on its hands and a surprising new star, an appealing Irish roughneck who had twined his boyish fingers around the heart strings of U. S. movie goers...
What Jack Hill and his fellow fans find so absorbing about Superman is not simply their hero's imperviousness and giant strength but his ability to fly through the air. Last week Superman took to the air* in earnest, as a three-a-week serial. His sponsor: H-O oats (Hecker Products Corp...
Pettish critics have sometimes said that reading Jules Remains' serial novel, Men of Good Will, is like reading backfiles of French newspapers from Oct. 6, 1908. The New York Times's hardworking Critic Ralph Thompson once remarked in a fit of exasperation that Remains' "theory of fiction is almost intolerable." But The New Yorker's Clifton Fadiman has stuck to his opinion that Men of Good Will "is the Comedie Humaine of and for the 20th Century." Tired critics and trustful critics have divided over the question whether the finished job (in 27 volumes, as planned...