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Tattlers were busily giving reasons why Vice President and General Distribution Manager Sidney R. Kent resigned from Paramount-Publix Corp. last month, were guessing his plans. Popular, an excellent salesman, Manager Kent was an Adolph Zukor protege. His resignation was sudden. Theories heard last week boiled down to two: 1) Mr. Kent resented the increasing power of Sam Katz (cofounder of famed Balaban & Katz theatre chain) in the company; 2) Mr. Kent had quarreled with Taximan John Daniel Hertz, leader of Paramount's new management. Every producer was said to be angling for Mr. Kent last week, with...
Said New York's Mayor Walker: "If we had a few more Lewisohns and a few less grouches in this city it would be even a happier place." Occasion: a testimonial concert at Hunter College to Adolph Lewisohn, famed philanthropist and music patron. In the course of eulogies of Mr. Lewisohn by Lieut.-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Lawyer George Gordon Battle et al., it was revealed that a chamber music foundation is being planned by a group of patrons headed by Mr. Lewisohn and including Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Otto Hermann Kahn, Theodore Steinway. Patron Lewisohn declared that he "would...
...Manhattan, Adolph Kanter, 44, drove his car through the railing and off a 75-ft. viaduct, found that instead of being killed he had suffered only a black eye, a few bruises. More proud than thankful, Adolph Kanter said he had saved himself by clinging to the cushion of his car, wrote an ode about his feat: Here I am, the miracle man, The one that flies in a Chrysler car; Lindy hopped over the ocean, Made a perfect landing in France; So did I make a perfect landing Over a Viaduct fence. I dropped seventy-five feet with...
...there was to know about Egypt and the Hebrews. At Yale he got his M.A., would have got a Ph.D. if he had not been so impatient to learn more. It was Professor Harper, then at Yale, who sent him off to Berlin to study under famed Egyptologist Adolph Erman...
...Some onetime newsboys: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Roy Wilson Howard, Henry Latham Doherty, John Haydock Carroll, Thomas Alva Edison, William Wrigley Jr., Adolph Simon Ochs, Edward William...