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Tell It to the Judge (Columbia) is marital slapstick in which Robert Cummings pursues Rosalind Russell from Florida to the Adirondacks. In the best woman's magazine tradition, it depicts the U.S. male as a kitten and the female as a hyperthyroid tiger. Attorney Russell, as stalwart as the...
Until he was 16, James Laughlin, heir to a slice of one of Pittsburgh's biggest steel fortunes,* hardly knew the difference between the avant-garde and the guard at a foundry gate. English Teacher Dudley Fitts soon changed all that. At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling...
This week Cummings was back in Chicago to tell his board of directors what he had learned. As a starter, Cummings would redesign most of the stores in the country by throwing out the counter. Says he: "It just keeps customers away from what they want to buy." Goods should...
As for salesmen, Cummings thinks too many of them wander aimlessly in & out of stores, just making calls and taking orders. Cummings thought that salesmen should work harder to expand a grocer's business, and cited an example to show that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat...
When he gets his 1,000 salesmen well indoctrinated in his sales-generating ideas, Cummings may take to the road again. Says he: "Sitting in a La Salle Street board room and push-buttoning out quotas to vice presidents won't keep business booming."