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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leigh began a sparring game to preserve the Cukor conception...
Last day of shooting was July i, 1939. With shooting completed, cutting began...
Broun's baseball stories for the Tribune have been called the best ever written. But it was after he transferred to the World, as a columnist in 1921 that his career really began. His column, It Seems to Me, ran for 18 years, first in the World, then in Scripps-Howard's Telegram, later in the World-Telegram, when Publisher Howard merged the two papers in 1931. But in all of them it was informal, effortless, personal. A man of tremendous heart and unfailing kindness, Broun was led by his sympathies first into Socialism, then to the brink...
Born in Boston in 1901, Painter Hoffman began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil. He studied art in Boston and Europe, now lives in a crowded Manhattan studio with a squint-eye view of Central Park. For recreation, he plays squash, second fiddle in an amateur chamber-music ensemble that meets in his studio every Wednesday evening...
...August, zinc sold at 4¾? a Ib. With war, its price rose to 6½? - a rise of 47% which precipitated no end of buying and production for inventory. Then sales began to dry up. Fortnight ago, American Smelting and Refining Co. dropped the price ½? ($10 a ton). Trade pundits guessed that the steel industry-one of the largest consumers of nonferrous metal-would let down production even further after January, and American Metal Market headlined: "The outlook for Metal Prices none too solid...