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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tonk," sniffed the Time's Brooks Atkinson. "Olsen & Johnson would be practically scriptless if the Chinese hadn't invented gunpowder," grumped the Herald Tribune. "A cheerful nightmare," said the World-Telegram. Actually, Olsen and Johnson seem to be criticproof. Funzapoppin's predecessor, Hellzapoppin, was disdained by almost every critic, yet it ran for more than three years on Broadway...
...shattering experience. He once heard a group of older schoolboys practicing their singing lesson; the unexpected thrill of hearing two-part harmony, he wrote later, forced him to steady himself against the wall to keep from falling. When he first heard brass instruments played together, he says, "I almost fainted from excess of pleasure...
...tired old Dr. Schweitzer seemed to be having a wonderful time finding out about the U.S. It was much more congenial than he had expected. Said he last week in New York: "I feel very much at home. I am delighted to find that people here are almost as disorganized and leisurely as they are in Europe...
...investment companies sold $80 million worth of their own shares in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 26% over 1948. Said Edmund Brown Jr., president of Manhattan's fast-selling Fundamental Investors, Inc.: "May was the biggest month in our history and June was almost as big. Last year's business was around $10,000,000; this year we're running at the rate of $12 million." The open-end trust business, combined with the $1.7 billion assets owned by the so-called "closed-end" trusts, is now a $3.2 billion giant...
...Drawbacks. Investment trusts have had their own ups & downs. In the '203 they grew to a $7 billion business which the 1929 crash almost wiped out. Even some that survived were guilty of sharp practices and management abuses which brought on a five-year investigation by the SEC. The probe resulted in the Investment Company Act of 1940, that put investment companies under rigorous SEC supervision...