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...airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Work | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Legendary are the corporate complications of Associated. Metaphysical, ingenious, a cost-accountant's flea-circus, they are as far above cash-register economics as Einstein is above arithmetic. Legendary also is the personality of Associated's creator, pudgy, laughing, strongarm Tactician Howard C. Hopson. Hopson learned the utility ropes as head of the Capitalization Division of New York State's progressive Public Service Commission, worked 15 hours a day, slept in his office, binged Homerically, ran up astronomical bills telephoning his Janizaries at all hours in all parts of the country, candidly spoke of his "collapsible securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A. G. & E.: Round I | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...ever run out of money," John Held, Jr., Adams House art advisor and creator of the famous comic-sheet flapper, "Marge," stated last night, "I'm going to sue the CRIMSON for libel. I have never been an editor on either the 'New Yorker' or the old 'Life.' I was merely on their boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harried By Horrid Hoaxes John Held Holds | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

...sends them only the finest English pullovers, stockings and gloves, each .neatly stamped in the corner "Chanel." Exactly opposite in type to Coco is that dignified great lady of the haute couture, Mme Jeanne Lanvin, first woman of her calling ever made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, famed creator in rich fabrics of the simple robes de style. Mme Lanvin says briefly, "Women should stick to what they do best." She was open for business last week, turning out mostly day dresses for women and special uniforms for French officers of the higher ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Women At Work | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Died. Philip Francis Nowland, 52, creator of the newspaper cartoon strip "Buck Rogers"; of a stroke; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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