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...last week traffic was reported going strong both ways: airplanes and their parts, refined oil and its derivatives, machinery, ammunition, medical supplies into China; furs, skins, animal fats, crude oil and other products out. This meant that supply vessels unloading at Vladivostok could clear port with pay loads...
...evidence, he goes to the great apes, nearest kin to man. They show - and inherit - wide differences of personality. Gorillas like to thump their chests. Both gorillas and chimpanzees do crude dances and rhythmic poundings, but orangs and gibbons do not. By people who have studied them closely, gibbons are usually described as shy, gentle, amiable, affectionate. Gorillas are reserved, deliberate, discreet. Chimpanzees are lively, responsive, emotionally unstable. These temperamental differences are obviously not due to variations in the natural habitat, for animals born in captivity manifest them. Moreover, at this stage, differences between individual members of the same species...
...Donald Coster (Philip Musica) of McKesson & Robbins always took a close personal interest in his auditors, Price, Waterhouse & Co. He first hired the firm in 1925; used their audits to get respectable banker backing; always saw that the sales and inventory records (i.e., pieces of paper) of his fictitious crude drug department were in A-1 shape...
When the truth about the crude drug fantasy was first announced, a Price, Waterhouse man exclaimed, "Why, that's the best-run department in the business." Wrote Coster to Price, Waterhouse in 1936: ". . . Only in auditing [has] our company really got its money's worth." During the two years since McKesson's receivership and Coster's suicide, McKesson (under Trustee William Jed Wardall) has made gradual progress toward reorganization. One of Trustee Wardall's jobs is to recover assets; one source of recoveries was Coster's board of directors, who gave him enough votes...
...Crude slapstick has taken over stage and screen at the Keith Boston. "Spook House," better half of a double feature, is a four relier in which bedroomless newlyweds and aroller skating penguin run Dead Pan Buster Keaton a grotesque rat race. All the old Mack Sonnet gags are used--only the lack of a custard pic tossing scene indicates that the show wasn't filmed twenty years ago. On the stage, Hollywood's Three Stooges appear and disappear in person...