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...Legislature called for censorship after pretty, 19-year-old Sue Brandt, in an editorial in the Daily Texan, approved Soviet criticism of the Czarist Church...
...human desires and disillusionments. One of the best living purveyors of eccentrics is Jean Burton of Berkeley, Calif. She proved it in her biography of her bristling collateral ancestor Richard and his devoted wife (Sir Richard Burton's Wife-TIME, June 23, 1941), proves it again (with Texan Jan Fortune) in a study of Elisabet...
Promotions and Dispersions. Last week the 19th Group got its orders. A few would remain at Pyote as the nucleus of a new 19th under command of Major Elbert ("Butch") Helton, 27-year-old Texan who led one of its old squadrons for a year. At least a record dozen pilots of the 19th would get commands of other groups stationed from Kansas to California...
...Scarface eight years before, decided to collaborate in producing a Ben Hecht script-biography of Billy the Kid. For the chief roles Hughes insisted on new faces, specified the girl must be "primarily sexy." The Hughes lightning struck Californian Jane Russell, 19, a dentist's receptionist. Also struck: Texan Jack Beutel, 21, a studio hanger-on (Hughes changed his name to Buetel...
...uninhibited, involved comedy directed in the Preston Sturges manner by playful Elliott Nugent, the film casts Paulette as a shapely Texan who loses a beauty contest and somehow becomes a crystal gazer. This puts her in a practically perfect position to confuse her rival (Virginia) and convince her quarry (Ray) that his destiny wears red hair. These shenanigans occasionally achieve a quality of amiable screwiness...