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...hard about it), but he is a man of enough professional acumen to have signed up one of the best directors in the business, George Abbott, who for his part has had enough sense to sin up a perfect cast: Paul Ford (dad), Maureen O'Sullivan (mom), and Orson Bean (son-in-law). Do you follow...
...coast during the past month, last week wound up in California's fabled San Joaquin Valley. The visitors ogled Fred DeBenedetti's mechanical tree shaker that tumbled walnuts to the ground, stared while other mechanized arms swept up the piles of nuts. When William Machado, a bean farmer, said that he had suffered no loss at all in harvesting his crop, the Russians-who could only judge by the chaotic conditions back home-simply did not believe...
...BOSTON CLUB CIRCLES : Here's to dear old Boston, Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Kennedys always get caviar And the McCormacks only get scrod...
...less prestigious job, complaining wearily, 'I didn't think I could stand it another minute." Paul Davies was only 28. but already vice president of a San Francisco bank, when he signed on in 1928 as financial boss of his father-in-law's John Bean Manufacturing Co., a small producer of agricultural spray pumps and prune-drying equipment. Almost immediately, he launched the company-which in 1929 was rechristened Food Machinery Corp.* on a course of pell-mell expansion, which he is fond of calling "aggressive diversification.'' One after another. Davies added new lines...
...thought you would like to know how much I enjoyed the article on Coleman Hawkins [Aug. 31], the elder-statesman saxophone player. Though he has been playing tenor for nearly 40 years, "Bean" has always kept up with the youngsters as well as his contemporaries. I cannot recall a time in his long career when he could honestly be accused of "saxual senility...