Word: ami
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewin Productions announced that Ernst was the $3,000 prizewinner in a "Temptation of St. Anthony" contest. The producers had persuaded twelve apostles of Modern Art to paint what Anthony saw. (Each artist got $500 for trying.) Ernst's winning picture will be used in a movie, Bel Ami or The History of a Scoundrel, starring George Sanders and having nothing to do with Anthony. It was not the first time Messrs. Loew and Lewin had brought art to Hollywood. Their Picture of Dorian Gray centered around a worm-crawling canvas painted by the Albright brothers, to portray Oscar...
First test of this scheme was 2,958 shares of Bon Ami Co. B stock, an inactive issue. Last week, just 103 minutes trading time after the first ticker-tape notice flashed in U.S. brokerage offices, the last share was sold. To Stott, this was full proof that the Big Board can handle almost any stock-selling job. To the seller, it meant a big saving in commissions. Off-the-board commissions would have been around $6,000; commissions under the special offerings plan were $3,163-only 2.86% of the $110,555 deal. Thus, in effect, Mr. Stott...