Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Temple is seven. Still apparently untouched by the years - three since her cinema career began - she steals scenes from two oldtime stage mimes, dances, sings, mugs shamelessly on Little Eva's death bed. Kindest shot: the back of Frank Morgan's head when Shirley, her arms twined around his neck, is sobbing out an embarrassingly sentimental ballad called Picture Me Without...
Grocer's Friend. Thus illuminated by the glow of 65,000 candles was the career of a onetime Chicago accountant named J. (for Joseph) Frank Grimes. Accountant Grimes grasped the idea that the essentials of chainstore distribution- mass buying, good merchandising-were not inseparable from the chainstore setup. In 1926 when the grief of independent grocers and wholesalers over chainstore competition was deepest. Accountant Grimes founded IGA. His accounting partners, William W. Thompson and Louis G. Groebe, became IGA secretary and treasurer, respectively. With a firm of advertising and merchandising experts they set up an organization to service retail...
...with their wives and offspring, make up the cast of the book. One dies, leaving a widow, Carmella, who is beloved by two of the brothers. She bears a son to one of these, Chauncey, who, however, marries the half-witted niece of a political boss to advance his career. (The other, John, marries an Australian girl.) Another grandson fails in his attempt to run a farm; another marries, begins practice as a dentist. The oldest granddaughter, Josie. a trim, efficient business girl, is having a secret love affair with her employer, marries him when his wife and daughter...
...after the War, Freeman covered the crash of the ZR-2, worked under Floyd Gibbons, conducted a long international correspondence on political and literary matters with his old schoolmates, many of whose letters he includes in his autobiography, saw enough of journalism to be sure it was not his career. Returning to the U. S. he wrote for a left-wing literary magazine called The Liberator, had himself psychoanalyzed, set up a Greenwich Village establishment with a gentle, observant girl named Laura, lived in an experimental colony in New Jersey...
...Talmud. He worked his way to Russia on a freighter, got a job at the office of the Comintern as a translator. In Russia during the excitement before the expulsion of Trotsky, he was depressed by the conflicts in the Communist Party, dispirited by the unprincipled career-hunting he observed, but did not lose his faith in Communism as a result. He is now on the editorial staff of the New Masses...