Douglas
pretty much swept the awards circuit that year, actually, which would make more sense had Rooney not been in the ideal position to siphon off votes: Douglas had already won an Oscar in this
category (for Hud, 16 years earlier), while Rooney had only received a
special, non-competitive juvenile award way back in 1938, given jointly to him and Deanna Durbin.
Nevertheless, some topics still fit
pretty comfortably into the
category of the «historical purview of men,» and some fine new publications have arrived to stake their claim as appropriate holiday gifts for
special guys.