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Merger for Rank. After all the fuss & feathers, the stockholders of J. Arthur Rank's Odeon Theaters Ltd. quietly ap proved his plan to buy his General Cinema Finance Corp., for ?1,100,000 (TIME, Dec. 22). The plan was carried, with no dis sent, by a show of hands at the stock holders' meeting. Said the London Times: "Nobody will now query the [deal's] propriety . . . since shareholders have been given ample opportunity of dissenting...
Corpses & Clippings. The wave of dis illusioned Americans broke on a foreign shore that was wholly receptive to their discontent. In 1924, at the death of France's premier novelist, Anatole France, members of the new Surrealist movement had shown their antipathy to the old literary regime by issuing a raucous manifesto entitled Did You Ever Slap A Corpse? At the same time, followers of the deliberately infantile Dada movement were exhibiting "paintings" that showed a decisive break with the old tradition-being composed chiefly of newspaper clippings and shoelaces...
Later in the day Queen Elizabeth scored a personal triumph when she sampled a Paarl housewife's Dutch milk tart. "Ah," said the Queen in Afrikaans, "dis bale goed" (this is very good...
...became quite a figure in the news and editorial pages of an angry Brazilian press. Cried Rio's Democracia: "In a land where race discrimination is not the concern of statesmen or a headache for sociologists ... an incident like this demands an explanation." Said Dr. Diggs: "I am dis» illusioned. . . ." Explained shamefaced Serrador Manager Arcangelo Maleta: "There was some mistake...
...Roosevelt (who later took his son Cornelius into partnership), the firm started out as a hardware shop in Maiden Lane, barely opened its doors before Manhattan was swept by yellow fever. The shop not only survived the epidemic but within a few years was so prosperous that it began dis counting notes for other merchants. This led to other financial activities, and the hardware business was finally abandoned...