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...retained as Cineman Fox's chief fixer. He was mainly concerned with accumulating properties for Fox Theatres Corp. A shrewd, able negotiator, Fixer Blumenthal piled chain upon chain. He it was who negotiated the famed $50,000,000 Loew's deal for William Fox. Natty, chipmunkish Fixer Blumenthal boasts that after months of dickering he was finally able to close the deal because he correctly interpreted scraps of a conversation he overheard between two foolish daughters of a cinema tycoon who did not know what they were talking about. Wall Street thinks that it was Fixer Blumenthal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fixer on the Warpath | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...like "Old Joe" Pulitzer used to wear a beard. "Bob" Scripps has been growing one since October. From a dubious trowel beard it has evolved into a handsome spade affair, Messianic full face and like Italos Balbo's in profile. Partner Howard's visage remains the same-chipmunkish, irrepressible, oriental. Quicker to read than their faces are their respective offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps-Howard | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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