Brendan Gill
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PROFILE of Jerome Zerbe, society photographer. For 40 years (he is 68) he has taken pictures of attractive people on delightful occasions, & they number …
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PROFILE of the late actress, Tallulah Bankhead. In 1931 she left London where she had been a sensation for 8 yrs for NY. Paramount Pictures offered her a …
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Part 1 of Brendan Gill’s classic Profile of the legendary film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead, exploring her Alabama upbringing, the garden parties, which inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” that she attended as a young actress, and her rise to fame in nineteen-twenties London.
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PROFILE of Cole Porter, songwriter, who died in 1964 at 73. Tells about his youth - attendance at Yale, sojurn in Paris. He was called a playboy, …
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Story about Jeanne, a girl who is murdered by her lover, with whom she lives. Another man who was with her at the time ran to get help & so may have …
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At 46, John Lawrence was a full 42 years older than his son Charles, & his powers of invention weren't what they had been in the days when he used to …
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PROFILE of Georges Simenon, the novelist. In 1931, when he launched his Inspector Maigret, Simenon decided to give a ball. He persuaded his publisher to …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about N. Y. City's water systems, past & present, & about the current water shortage. In 1796, th legislature chartered a private …
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BOOKS review of John O’Hara’s “A Rage to Live and Mary McCarthy’s “The Oasis.”
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In 1947, New York City’s health commissioner, Dr. Israel Weinstein, denied the “crackpot” rumors about the smallpox vaccination, which rolled out to more than six million New Yorkers over the course of a month.
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PROFILE of Charles Brady King, the man who designed and built the first car to be driven through the streets of Detroit, this was in 1896. His machine was …
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PROFILE of Lt. Joseph Theodore Hallock. Two years ago he was an undergraduate of the U. of Oregon; today he is a veteran bombardier who has completed …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the British refugee children who have been and are living in Tuxedo Park. Their stay has been made possible by residents of the …
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PROFILE of Sigmund M. Morey, president of the Morey Machinery Company. The Army - Navy E is no ordinary mark of governmental benediction. Any factory …
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Reporter at Large about Youthbuilder, Inc., a club designed developed, and runfor the benefit of school children. It is the creation of Mrs. Sabra …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Cyril Thomas Edward Charles Faircloth, a British seaman, who told about fighting with the B. E. F. in Belgium and France. He was …
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Visit to the Kermit Roosevelt Oyster Bay estate which has been lent as a home for convalescent seamen. Interview with Dr. Daniel Blain, medical director of…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a typical war-boom town in Conn.; its housing conditions with an added population from ten to fifteen thousand people; what …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Eiverton, Connecticut Fair. The fair is held on a plain beside the river. All day long, cows, horses, and oxen are led down the…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a typical working day in the Senator's life. Description of his office in Washington, his secretarial & clerical staff, mail, …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a trial of a narcotics case. The indictment handed up by the Grand Jury charged Shirley Denevere with the unlawful possession & …
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Description of a spreading fire in a small community. The volunteer firemen went to work but despite their efforts several barns burned down.