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Bangs & Sensible People. Born in Illinois about 50 years ago, Helen Hokinson studied art in Chicago, moved to Manhattan in 1920 and submitted her first cartoon (at a friend's insistence) to The New Yorker in 1925. In 1931, she started collaborating with James Reid Parker, 40, a New Yorker author, who suggested most of the situations, usually by mail, and wrote most of the captions...
...office of Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower. There he received a warm handshake and hearty congratulations. At 42, Hideki Yukawa had become the first of his countrymen to win a Nobel Prize. The $30,000 prize in physics was awarded for the theory Yukawa had propounded 14 years ago. (The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to University of California Professor William F. Giauque -pronounced Gee-oke-for his studies in the behavior of matter at very low temperatures...
When he opened the world's biggest drugstore in Hollywood two years ago, Rexall Drug, Inc.'s President Justin Whitlock Dart threw a $90,000 party complete with film stars, searchlights and 10,000 free orchids. To Justin Dart, onetime tackle at Northwestern University, the celebration was the booming kickoff to the Rexall team's postwar expansion program. But by last week many a stockholder had begun to wonder why Rexall had not followed up with a few smashing plays...
Employees' morale was not improved by this program. When Rexall's earnings began to slip, Dart trimmed 2,500 from the staff including many who had moved west when Dart had shifted Rexall headquarters from Boston to Los Angeles four years ago. In the realignment of stores, many an oldtimer found himself demoted or bypassed for promotion by some comparative newcomer Dart had brought...
...months ago, she had worked herself to a frazzle, complicated by insomnia and jitters for which she had long been trying to doctor herself. After she had a series of temperamental blowups on the set of Annie Get Your Gun, M-G-M suspended her and tackled the expensive job of starting all over again with a new star, Betty Hutton. Judy apologized for her behavior and then entered a Boston hospital for a rest cure. Among other things, she needed to put on some weight...