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...Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham (no relative) is a dark, strong-faced, deep-voiced, wisecracking, non-smoking six-footer from New Zealand. He has a reputation for talent in cooperation-not a notable talent of previous R.A.F. commanders in the Middle East. Air Vice Marshal Coningham speaks French, German and Italian. He is widely traveled and knows Italy well; he refers to his bombings of Naples as his "slum-clearance project." Of the Germans, whose country he used to visit annually, he says: "They know war from A to about Y. They don't know...
...pools of U.S. radio talent are in Manhattan and Hollywood. To put on his show in Washington, Producer Morgan had to find and train his own actors. On the reasonable theory that types for a show about the Government could be found in the Government itself, Morgan relied heavily on well-cast amateurs. Of the 200 actors and actresses who are now on call for Report to the Nation, two-thirds are daytime Government employes. Among them Producer Morgan, in search of a regional accent, can be fairly sure to find the real McCoy...
...Colony. Hollywood's wealth is first-generation wealth, earned by talent or luck, spent by people unaccustomed to handling money. Hollywood's rich are very young (46% of the colony is under 40). Their insistent optimism betrays a vague fear that it can't last. This anxiety makes them morbid, self-deprecating complainers. As one sensitive soul put it: "In this town I'm snubbed socially because I only get a thousand a week. That hurts...
...movie elite commands large salaries because of the scarcity of Grade-A movie talent and management. But they remain employes, not people of property, and they work for salaries. One or two of the wealthiest "may be worth five million dollars," but that is small change beside the established U.S. fortunes...
These are 17 short stories by a writer whom watchers for new talent have been following in magazines for two or three years. So they arrive, with an introduction by Katherine Anne Porter, as something of a literary event...