Word: brokering
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...other things they demanded the rights to their creation. (Like most comic-strippers they had signed away all rights.) As the suit dragged on, the publishers lured other artists to draw Superman, although the strip still carried Siegel's & Shuster's names. Last week, in Manhattan, Newspaper Broker Albert Zugsmith arranged a settlement: Siegel & Shuster got $100,000, and National Comics Publications, Inc., got Superman and a comic called Superboy...
...Maggie's film career has suffered only two minor lapses: 1) a flop in her one try at Hollywood, where Maggie supported Shirley Temple in Susanna of the Mounties, and "didn't know what I was supposed to do"; and 2) an unsuccessful marriage to a London broker, which, however, produced a daughter called "Toots." At seven, Toots has already appeared in two of her mother's films, gets a sack or two of Maggie's weekly silo of fan mail...
...Cincinnati Times-Star; Chain Publisher Frank Gannett; the Ridder brothers of Manhattan and Minnesota; and portly Publisher Silliman Evans of the Nashville Tennessean. Enquirer Publisher Roger Ferger, 54, who joined the staff as advertising manager in 1920, may enter a bid himself, backed by local capital. And Newspaper Broker Smith Davis had others on the string...
...American Way. Miss Hansen said there was nothing mysterious about it. She had been a steel broker for seven years (she got interested in steel while writing an M.A. thesis on Andrew Carnegie), and had gone to Texas to see Anderson. "Mr. Anderson asked me to sign up," she said; "he was very nice about...
Caught Short? Where had all the stock come from? Witnesses implied that many a broker had made short sales, i.e., sold...