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...action last week, but not the kind that makes the gossip columns. Stockholders of Warner Bros. Pictures voted to divorce the company's producing & distributing business from its theaters, thus becoming the last of Hollywood's Big Five (Loew's, 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount) to conform to the federal court decision won by the Government's trustbusters...
...duties to Executive Vice President Rayniak and others. And Board Chairman S. F. Briggs, whose stock holdings are almost as big as Evinrude's, had apparently decided to vote against him. Said one top executive: "There comes a time when it seems desirable to change an organization to conform to the facts of life." But this week, the directors took another look at the facts of life, i.e., Evinrude's big block of stock. They made him vice chairman and chairman of the executive committee...
...Lawn Tennis Association, taking due note of three straight Davis Cup losses to Australia, last week liberalized its amateur code to conform with that of other nations. U.S. players, heretofore limited to eight weeks' subsidized barnstorming a year, may now compete in an unlimited number of tournaments, all expenses paid. Still under discussion: a rule, modeled on Australia's, which would permit U.S. amateurs to earn their own keep by working for such interested employers as sporting goods firms...
...then, the FTC cracked down on her, ordered her to stop claiming that her Eye Lash Grower had any effect on growth, or that the egg content of her Egg Complexion Soap had any beneficial effect on the skin. She altered her titles to conform, but feared the FTC less than her archrival Elizabeth Arden, who paid $50,000 a year to hire away Rubinstein's general manaager. Rubinstein got revenge by hiring Arden's ex-husband to take his place...
Standing before a 16-ft. portrait of himself at a Radical Socialist congress in Bordeaux, Herriot attacked the six-nation treaty which would set up a multinational European army against Communist aggression. Said Herriot: "Does this treaty conform to our Constitution? I say no ... All the provisions of this treaty work to put France in a position of inferiority." Herriot's specific objections: 1) under articles 12 and 13, the Germans, and all other nations, could withdraw troops from the joint army on the pretext of putting down domestic disturbances, while if France wanted to withdraw troops to send...