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...Mikado ("The only show I ever produced that I liked"), Star and Garter, his first Broadway smash hit, Cole Porter's Mexican Hayride, Catherine Was Great with Mae West, the G.I. Hamlet with Maurice Evans, and an involuntary bit in court, where he was declared bankrupt. Continuing to live lavishly, Todd said, "I was a million in the hole. What was I supposed to do, cut down on my cigars...
...customers, most of whom inevitably visit the parent store. In the fight for the shopper's dollar, downtown merchants have also been helped by the bad planning and high operating costs which often plague suburban developments, e.g., Framingham, a $7,000,000 shopping center outside Boston which went bankrupt in less than two years...
...that does not make a fuss but simply thwarts, delays and transforms. The Oxford Preservation Trust, an ancient body dedicated to the maintenance of Oxford's ancient monuments and landmarks, mobilized against the Meadow road. High Street merchants began protesting that diversion of traffic from their doors would bankrupt them. A town planner was found who was ready to prove that the plan was unworkable. The university's ruling Hebdomadal Council met in deepest secrecy and significantly failed to endorse the new scheme. From his Christ Church study overlooking the meadow, the venerable Lord Cherwell, Sir Winston Churchill...
...first spectaculars and a barrage of premières fell on TV screens last week like a soggy September drizzle. In Bretaigne Windust's The Lord Don't Play Favorites on NBC's Producers' Showcase, a Kansas hick town was caught in a drought. A bankrupt circus only made matters worse by praying for a dry track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice...
...second time in six weeks that Publisher John Fox's morning daily had been forced by sheer lack of cash to stop publishing. But this time self-made Financier Fox, 49, did not come back to the controls. He stepped aside by declaring the Post bankrupt, and three court-appointed trustees began trying to dig the paper out of its $2.2 million pile of debts...