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Last month Benj. Franklin was kicked off the cover of the Satevepost for the first time since old Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought it 45 years ago. If old Cyrus turned in his grave then, this week's cover must have brought his amazed ghost stalking into Independence Square. Saturday Evening started to follow Franklin toward limbo, leaving the word Post baldly staring from the cover in unfamiliar type. Neither inside nor out did the once fabulously successful weekly look like its old self...
...show was the hunch of short, stocky Al Rosen, a Hollywood agent who thought the public needed a good old bedroom farce, and dug through dozens of them till he found the one he liked. He hired Playwright Cyrus Wood (Sally, Irene and Mary, Street Singer) to doctor it up, finally found an angel. The show opened in Santa Barbara in February and so outraged that staid community that the city council met. Good Night Ladies thereupon scrammed to San Francisco for a week, clicked, stayed five. When it lit out for Chicago it had already earned back...
...jumping-off points, it must transport troops, carry military air freight, find or train pilots for over-water runs. As the job grew greater, it needed more management manpower. The Air Corps Chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, looked around for a helper, last week tapped tall, drawling Cyrus Rowlett Smith, American Airlines president, for the job. "C.R.," an ace airline executive, pushed American to the top of the domestic airline heap...
...give the angry dealers relief, OPA's automan Cyrus McCormick has already promised that they will be allowed to sell at least 340,000 cars this year. Last week OPA eased the rules covering registration of new cars. Meanwhile Nash announced that it would lend its dealers $10 cash per car per month until March...
...ascendancy in the Post for Fred Healy, crack adman who, during the last depression, extended his sway over the Post's circulation department. (An adman became circulation manager.) He then proceeded to offset normally shrinking circulation by jettisoning the ultraconservative circulation methods which had long been Cyrus H. K. Curtis' pride...