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Even the by-line of Jackie Cochran and the big purse of Odlum's Atlas Corp. (oil, airlines, utilities, Manhattan's swank Bonwit Teller store, movies) could not solve the wartime paper problem. But it might well help develop Liberty's new lease on life into a more successful pursuit of advertisers...
Hollywood rumor had it that David Selznick had his eye on 50% of RKO's stock. But his eyes were big. Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corp., which owns 46% of RKO, has shown no inclination to sell even one of its 1,300,000 shares...
...presence of two of Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. directors on the board of the Frazer-Kaiser Corp. started rumors that Atlas Corp., with its $13,000,000 in cash, was behind the new company. Odium denied it. Authorized capital will be 5,000,000 shares at $1 par. Half the stock will be taken by Graham-Paige for its stockholders. But all the rosy talk was enough to make Graham-Paige stock the most active stock on the New York Exchange last week, send it hippity-hopping...
Lesson for Pan Am. Actually, the rise in stocks, notably those of the airlines & aircraft builders, caught many an expert flatfooted. For example, when Pan American Airways Corp. planned new stock issues last December, it thought it safer and cheaper to make a deal with Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to buy any unsold stock, up to $25,000.000. For its financing, Atlas received an option on 500,000 shares of Pan Am at $18 (TIME, Dec. 18). Last week, Pan Am canceled the deal. Reason: Pan Am's stock was up to 28, higher than even...
...been the hot-bed of the best observations of the week. For instance, "Bashful Bob" Brocker freely admitted for once that he had "been around a bit." We suspected it all along. "Hashmark Harry" Cagle and "Boilermaker" Lutz showed inspired knowledge of naval affairs. Jim Frauenhoff brings a world atlas to tests to determine the location of 100 degrees east and west longitude and still can's figure the TA from Boston to Boston. By the way, did you notice the subtle irony in that ill-fated test Tuesday...