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Until two years ago, Selby was a Bulletin rewrite man. As a vacation fillin, he started to write "In Our Town," which had been merely a collection of amusing miscellany. Selby filled in so vigorously that he kept the column, and transformed it. When a Camden commuter complained about having...
Scalp the Savages. Historian (California's Huntington Library) Cleland's story of the hundreds of other daredevil trappers who opened up the Southwest for U.S. expansion is a tribute to some of history's forgotten men. Equipped with half a dozen five-pound beaver traps, a rifle...
Another line of attack is lures. Scientists led by Dr. Walter Carter of the Pineapple Research Bureau have discovered that a chemical, methyl eugenol, has a fatal attraction for male flies. The experts do not know whether the males mistake the scent for females, or whether they think the stuff...
At such a happy time, says Writer Bergler, there is little need for thought, either, since ideas don't come that way; they just originate in the hurricane cellar of the unconscious, and the writer traps them as they break for the open. According to Bergler, the writer'...
Scripted by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. from their own scenario-like novel about a heavy bomber group in the U.S. Army's Eighth Air Force (in which they both served), Twelve 0'Clock High has the uncommon merit of restraint. It avoids such cinemilitary booby traps...