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...After Higgins & Co. were acquitted, an eighth defendant pleaded guilty to the same charges. Hauled back to account for themselves before Supreme Court Justice Albert Conway, four jurors were fined $250 apiece, jailed for 30 days. Their offense: announcing that they were for acquittal before all the testimony...
Selznick called in Clark Gable, showed him a list of possible new directors. On Selznick's list were Robert Z. Leonard, Jack Conway, King Vidor, Victor Fleming. Asked to choose, Gable promptly named his great & good friend Victor Fleming, a big, grey, handsome, nervous, highly efficient Hollywood veteran, who has pulled through such problem pictures as The Crowd Roars, The Great Waltz, The Wizard of Oz, recently directed two of M.G.M.'s greatest moneymakers, Captains Courageous, Test Pilot. On Feb. 27, Fleming started the cameras rolling. Conscientious Craftsman Fleming drove his company hard...
...celebrate the golden jubilee of Barnard College, Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve asked visiting notables to review their adventures in scholarship, to show students that "It's fun to use your mind." English Professor Marjorie Hope Nicolson of Smith College remembered her elation at discovering the "Conway Letters" (detailing the romance of a Cambridge University philosopher and a beautiful young viscountess) in a chilly Cambridge library: "I wore all the clothes I owned, all the sweaters, all the coats. I wore mittens and gloves and I sat writing and copying those letters, with tears partly of cold and partly...
...evening last week, genial, popeyed Jerome Frank made his maiden appearance as chairman of SEC, at the maiden dinner of Manhattan's Association of Customers' Brokers, at which bigwig brokers like Carle Conway and Paul Shields were much more in evidence than customers' men. Chairman Frank seized the occasion to issue, not an SEC blast against Wall Street, but a solemn warning and appeal for cooperation...
...Most embarrassed president was John H. Reynolds, of small, Methodist Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. To speak and be kudized at the college's commencement he invited Roman Catholic Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, good friend to the president of the college's board of trustees, Utilityman Harvey Couch (Arkansas Power and Light, Kansas City Southern Railway). Mr. Farley came, spoke and was kudized, but not before a number of Arkansas Methodists, among them Teetotaler Dr. A. C. Millar, a former Hendrix president, had kicked up a storm because Teetotaler James Farley had helped repeal Prohibition...