Word: type
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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With the exception in the case of Harry Blaine, who has a good chance of winning, there should not be much difficulty for any of the wrestlers. While Columbia uses a hard, powerful type of wrestling, the fast, aggressive style of the Crimson should do a great deal to make them predominate throughout the roster...
...Stardust" starts out on excellent ideas--distinctly unusual since even the purists usually give the public the benefit of a "straight" melody first chorus. But while his ideas are startling and beautifully executed, they never withdraw from the velvety tone of the Dorsey type--a criticism from the standpoint of pure hot, but also a destruction of the argument that good hot men can't play suavely for public consumption...
...head off such newspaper innovations as Ralph McAllister Ingersoll's new evening tabloid, P. M., announced for next June (TIME, Jan. 22). Stories inside were squared off, divided by rules (like boxes) with separate departmental heads. Up from 7 pt. to 8 pt. went the Post's type throughout...
With a cruising range of more than 1,000 miles (at 325 m.p.h.) it can operate above 36,000 feet, lugs its pilot in comfort in a streamlined cabin with automobile-type doors. Strangest thing about it is that its engine, a 1,000 h. p., Prestone-cooled, inline Allison, is not in the nose, but behind the pilot. Built for sleek streamlining, the twelve-cylinder Allison (made by General Motors) drives the three-bladed prop through a shaft. Best thing about this is that it makes Airacobra's air-splitting nose thin and wartless, still leaves room...
...Earl of Chicago (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For years Robert Montgomery made out very handsomely as a Hollywood type. To cinemaddicts he was a slickly turned-out young man of the world whose scintillant wisecracks regularly wowed Joan Crawford. But all the while Robert Montgomery wanted to be a gangster. Much against its better judgment his studio at last let him play a sneering homicidal bellhop in Night Must Fall. Cinemactor Montgomery had a high old time murdering Dame May Whitty, and critics thought it was pretty good too. But the U. S. cinemasses, who can spot a phony...