McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, April 10, 1941, Image 2
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1941
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
TNJ EW YORK.—Our old friend Ben
Lucien Burman, the author who
became the leading impresario of
rivers, is off by clipper to take a
River Impresario at ^ est
African des-
Had Nickel Placed erts, for a
On Career, Won ^ an | a e u 7 ie ° s n t
writing assignment. One of his most
exciting traveling adventures was
promoting five cents for the subway
ride which started his writing ca
reer. Mr. Burman will be with Gen
eral WavelTs army and with the De
Gaulle forces, accredited by a mag
azine and a syndicate.
Mr. Barman’s first river book,
“Steamboat Round the Bend,”
became the last film in which
Will Rogers appeared. After
that he did a stretch at Holly
wood, and then got under way
with some more river books and
magazine stories, riding not only
rivers, incidentally, but camels,
in this same desert country to
ward which he is heading now.
On this trip, Mrs. Burman, who
is Alice Caddy, the artist who illus
trates his books, is going with him,
to supply a black-and-white obligato
for his stories. Mrs. Burman scores
heavily in both his traveling and
arriving, as disclosed by the story
Mr. Burman once told me.
“I quit my job as a reporter on
the Morning World to write stories.
I wrote plenty of them and they
kept on making extraordinarily quick
round trips to the publishers. One
day I was fondling and caressing my
last dime when I passed a baker’s
shop, with some freshly baked buns
in the window. I am instinctively a
plunger. The dime went for four
buns.
“After the banquet, I sang
’The Star Spangled Banner’ and
t went home, pondering various
plans for making a fresh start
in life. There was a letter from
the Pictorial Review, saying
they liked my story, ’Minstrels
of the Mist,' and would print it.
“My dime was gone, and while
the buns had bucked me up a bit, I
was too weak to walk to the maga
zine office. There just wasn’t that
much mileage in four buns. Then
I thought of a pretty girl I had seen
going in and out of her near-by
Greenwich Village studio. I called
on her, told her my story and sug
gested that she invest a nickel in
my gilt-edged career.
“She said it looked like a good
bet, but she, too, was short on
liquid assets—but she had six
cents in stamps which she would
be glad to risk. I converted the
stamps into a five-cent piece at
a stationery store, and bought a
subway ride. The magazine
people gave me a check for
$600.’’ Of course he went right
back and married the girl.
Mr. Burman was badly wounded
in the World war and walked with a
cane and crutches for several years
afterward. He returned to Harvard,
and was graduated in 1920.
CIR ARTHUR SALTER, British
^ economist and philosopher, has
been building a bridge of ideas be
tween Britain and the U. S. A. for
Britith Heavy-Doty
Thinker Foresaw as parlia-
‘Bridie of Ship.’
ministry of shipping, he comes over
to help build a “bridge of ships.’’
News from Washington is that he
will be a powerful councillor in de
vising ways and means to run the
gantlet of German submarines and
keep goods moving to England.
This isn’t his specialty, but he is one
of Britain’s heavy-duty thinkers.
When he delivered the Jona
than Peterson lecture in New
Yor, five years ago, he stirred
some sharp criticism in the
American press on the ground
that he was assuming too much
about our fraternal co-operation
with Britain. He urged this coun
try to join other nations in fend
ing off war and insisted that
we could do this without dan
gerous entanglements or com
mitments. Our intellectual elite
of banking, finance, foreign pol
icy and economics heard and ap
plauded, but were not so per
turbed as the somewhat gloomy
Sir Arthur.
Sir Arthur is a shrewd, wary, grim
little man. He is short, muscular,
vigorous and alert, and endowed
with a skeptical mind which has en
abled him to score heavily as a
prophet. However, he is of the in
tuitive or “hunching” school of
statesmanship. When he feels in
spiration stirring, he goes swimming
and floats on his back, looking up
into the sky—preferably in the sun
shine. This seems to have the ef
fect of disjointing rigid cause-and-
effect sequences and enhancing his
‘“extrasensory perception,” the gift
of all good “hunch” men.
America Is Arming, and Arming Fast!
\
These pictures illustrate the drive towards complete armament being made by the U. Sr., not only at home,
but in our possessions. Left: Guarding one of the strategic entrances to San Juan harbor in Puerto Rico
is this 155 mm. coast defense gun. It is being shot for the first time since installation at this spot. Right:
A cavalry gun crew hauling a giant cannon to an emplacement during maneuvers at Washington, D. C.
Flying Ambulances of Royal Air Corps
Upper left: Two air ambulances of the British RAF are shown in the air. Lower left: A nurse aboard one
of the ambulances is treating a patient, apparently administering oxygen. Right: The patient is removed
from the flying ambulance on reaching a spot where accommodation is available.
Big ‘Boom’ at Knoxville
March for Greece
Here is one of the biggest booms ever! Sixty-two tons of explosives
tear down a mountainside at the TVA Cherokee dam site, moving 450,000
tons of rock! The picture, framed by a huge shovel, shows nearly half
a million tons of rock cascading down the mountainside, looking for all
the world like a huge waterfall.
Greek-Americans, 10,000 strong,
marched in New York to celebrate
the 120th anniversary of that inde
pendence for which they are fight
ing. Left: Serina Chiros, represent
ing Greece’s powerful ally, Britain,
and (right) Helen Deys, Greece.
Sky Giant Nears Completion
Dobbin’s ‘Nosebag’
The world’s largest airplane, the Douglas B-10, pictured in a new
position in its hangar at Santa Monica, Calif., on the final assembly floor.
The 82-ton super-bomber wing measures 212 feet. It is powered with four
2,000 horsepower Wright Duplex-Cyclone engines, which will carry it non
stop more than 7,700 miles.
Britain’s horses will take a little
time to get accustomed to this new
type of nosebag, in which there i)
never any oats. Just a bit of pre
caution against Nazi gas.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
V ERONICA LAKE, the beau
tiful blonde who’s expected
to zoom to stardom as a result
of her appearance in Para
mount’s “I Wanted Wings,”
doesn’t want wings right now—
all she wants is a chance to stay
put right in Hollywood for a
while.
After finishing work in the pic
ture—in which she plays a heart
less vixen and provides tragic love
interest—she flew to Montreal with
her mother; she spent three days
there, during which she made three
personal appearances and four ra
dio broadcasts. Her name was giv
en to three babies, a new fox trot, a
park and a military aerial maneu
ver. Canadian fliers named it the
“Veronica roll” in her honor. Then
she headed for New York, where
she spent a day, and then flew home
—where it had been planned that
VERONICA LAKE
she’d be a feature attraction at the
military aerial review at Randolph
Field, Texas, staged as a prelude
to the first showing of “I Wanted
Wings.”
*
“Broadway Limited,” which is be
ing made at the Hal Roach studios
for release through United Artists,
promises to be one of the year’s
most hilarious comedies. It’s a tale
of a film star en route from the West
coast to New York with her direc
tor and her publicity man; the cast
includes Victor McLaglen, (as a lo
comotive engineer), Zasu Pitts, Pat
sy Kelly and George Stone.
*
Bette Davis received unexpected
assistance the other day. For a
scene in “The Bride Came C. O. D.”
she was to walk down a flight of
stairs, pause at the bottom, then
rush into James Cagney’s arms.
Just as she reached the bottom a
lamp above her head sizzled loudly
and shot out sparks; without look
ing, she gave a surprised leap, and
landed in Cagney’s arms. “Print
it!” shouted Director William Keigh
ley. “It’s perfect!”
*
Incidentally, Miss Davis will have,
in “The Little Foxes,” a role which
might have been created for her.
Tallulah Bankhead played it when
the play had a long and successful
run in New York, then took it on
tour throughout the country. This
will be the first time that Miss Davis
has worked for Samuel Goldwyn,
and the picture marks his resump
tion of picture-making after a year
of inactivity. William Wyler, who
directed “The Letter,” will direct,
and the play is being adapted for
the screen by its author, Lillian
Heilman.
*
Melville Ruick, a radio theater an
nouncer, has been one of radio’s
top announcers since 1935, but mo
tion picture easting directors per
sist in seeing him as a typical or
chestra leader. He appeared in one
in “Kitty Foyle,” the picture that
brought Academy honors to Ginger
Rogers, and has been cast as one in
“Miami” — his third such assign
ment in a year.
*
Bonita Granville has her most
dramatic role in “The People vs.
Dr. Kildare,” the latest of the Kil
dare series; she’ll have to be on her
toes, with Lionel Barrymore, Lew
Ayres, Laraine Day and Red Skelton
also present.
&
There’s a new style in the air,
thanks to Janet Logan and Barbara
Fuller, the mythical stepmother-
stepdaughler team on the CBS day
time serial, “Stepmother.” They
used to check up on each other’s
plans for a week ahead, to make
i sure of not wearing similar cos
tumes. Then the stress laid on
i “mother - daughter” outfits gave
them an idea; they wear clothes of
similar design in contrasting shades
—and ‘fashion promoters are inter
ested.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Warner Bros, will
film 14 Miniature Melodramas'* based on
popular short stories, employing top stars
and writers . . . Bob Hope appears in Hol
lywood's first battle of World War II in
"Caught in the Draft" . . . Peter Lorre,
who's added a sinister touch to many a
movie, will play a rascally and fearsome
sea captain in "The Uniform," which stars
Rosalind Russell and Clark Gable . . .
Deanna Durbin has moved that wedding
date up to April 18th, her parents' anni
versary . . . Paramount's to film "Govern
ment Girl," dealing with the life of a
small-town girl who goes to Washington
as a cog in the governmental machine.
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
Gilt picture frames can be re-;
stored to brightness by rubbing j
with a sponge moistened in tur-<
pentine.
* * *
Grease the inside of the contain-,
er, near the top, to keep milk from
boiling over.
• • •
To prevent dough sticking to the
spoon when making dumplings dip,
the spoon into hot liquid each time'
before putting it into the dough.
* * •
Faint piazza and garden chairs
now so that they may be thorough-;
ly dried before you wish to use
them.
• • *
Drain all boiled vegetables as
soon as tender. They become sog
gy if they are allowed to stand un- ;
strained after cooking. The water;
drained off may be saved for soup
stock.
* * *
If using icebags in a sickroom,,
instead of shaving ice each time'
you wish to fill a bag, to save time!
shave enough to fill a quart pitch-i
er and keep it in the refrigerator.!
• * *
Stewed prunes, stuffed with;
cheese, nuts or celery and ar-;
ranged on lettuce leaves, make a
suitable salad to serve with chops
or roasts. French or mayonnaise
salad dressing may be used with it.
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To Be Young
To be seventy years young is
sometimes far more cheerful andj
hopeful than to be forty years old. I
—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Prosperity is not without many
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—Bacon.
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