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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sally, Irene and Mary (Twentieth Century-Fox) lacks the timely zing that makes most Darryl Zanuck cinemusicals seem a little better than they are. Comic interludes are contributed by horn-beaked Jimmy Durante, startled-looking Fred Allen. Of a half-dozen tunes shared by Songstress Alice Faye and Crooner Husband Tony Martin, the Gordon-Revel Sweet As a Song is best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...There are possibly half-a-dozen men in the automobile industry who know as much about selling automobiles as William C. Cowling, sales manager for Ford until two months ago. Last week, after being emotional about the advantages of driving Fords for 23 years, he put himself in another frame of mind, was elected vice president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. of Toledo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...George Roberts, Johnny Mechem, and Ned Cutter, a forward trio who have been playing together for three years and who have scored a dozen goals against the Elis, and Ralph Pope, Gene Emerson, and Traf Hicks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Sink Middies; Sextet Closes Season With Elis | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

Here TIME'S three chief writers shared a long narrow cell barely big enough for three desks end to end. The editor sat at a desk in a large room surrounded by smaller desks for typists and half-a-dozen college girls (at one time from Smith, at others from Mt. Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley)-the beginnings of a research staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: ANNIVERSARY | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...International Steel Cartel and the Steel Export Association of America have decided on common export price levels for the ensuing fiscal, or cartel, year at lower levels than previously in effect. . . . Moreover, export quotas on some dozen steel commodities have been assigned to various member countries. Thus the U. S. has been assigned definite tonnages which it can sell monthly to Brazil, Argentina, Japan, China and other important steel-consuming countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Goodwill Gestures | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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