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Manhattan meeting of the Automotive Safety Foundation. Speaker Cameron was simply drawing a bead on the Foundation's aim to bring about full cooperation of all concerned-driver, pedestrian, manufacturer and roadbuilder-in a widespread highway-safety program...
...performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring a nod from every liberty-loving Britisher who can afford the admission price after his 27½% income tax is paid. In the course of his swashbuckling defense of human rights. Robin saves Much, the Miller...
...sprawling. In elevators and department stores in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee, the Womacks repeatedly stumbled over the smallest objects-light cords, tools, lipsticks, cigaret lighters, mousetraps, nails, pencils, or briar pipes-many of which had not been in evidence before they arrived. One Womack tripped on a bead. For the most part the Womack women did the falling, the Womack men acting as witnesses. Using such names as Opal Irkman or Bertha Curd, the Womacks had figured in at least 65 accidents which brought them $2,085. Most Womack claims were settled on the spot. Several netted nothing...
Consternation reigned in a Brooklyn theatre last week. The leading lady in a revival of White Cargo had three beads on her scanties and one of her beads, it was discovered, had been sewed on by nonunion hands. Local 21313, Theatrical Costume Workers Union of the American Federation of Labor immediately threw cordons of pickets around the theatre for two nights. On the third night a settlement was reached. The settlement: the offending bead was plucked off, the part played thenceforth in two beads...
With this letter William Randolph Hearst drew a bead on his audience which has not wavered in 50 years of "Gee Whiz!" journalism. Eight years later, with the Examiner going strong, the first big battle by Hearst for his publishing empire was fought in Manhattan. He grappled for an Eastern footing with Joseph Pulitzer and his old model, Pulitzer's sensational World. Gentle Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, whose fortune was always at her beloved son's disposal, sold her Anaconda copper shares for $7,500,000 to finance this New York struggle. But it was in San Francisco...