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...55th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church had been better than many a pessimistic liberal churchman had expected. Merger with the Presbyterians was still distant. But delegates at Philadelphia had hammered out a brand-new marriage canon (TIME, Sept. 23). And they had elected without delay a top-drawer, liberal Presiding Bishop...
...Park Avenue" concerns itself with top-drawer sassiety and the casual interpretation of the marriage knot which has long been characteristic of stage aristocrats. Through two overdrawn acts, Mrs. Sybil Bennet of Oyster Bay joins a covey of her lady friends in pulling off matrimonial deals and counter-deals fairly devastating in their nonchalance...
American Research will get its technical advice from a board of advisers headed by Brigadier General Georges F. Doriot, who resigns this month as Deputy Director of the Research and Development Division of the War Department General Staff. Also on the board are three top-drawer men from M.I.T.: President Karl T. Compton, Edwin R. Gilliland, and Jerome Clarke Hunsaker. The board of directors includes Ralph E. Flanders, board chairman of Jones & Lamson Machine Co. (who will also serve temporarily as president of the company); Bradley Dewey, onetime Rubber Administrator, now president of Dewey & Almy Chemical Co.; and Ira Mosher...
Notorious (RKO Radio) is a top-drawer thriller, as might be expected with all the top-drawer talent involved; Alfred Hitchcock directed Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant through the Ben Hecht yarn...
People & Money. A.R.I.'s top-drawer clients include such shrewd and seasoned manufacturers as Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney, MGM, David 0. Selznick, Hal Wallis, J. Arthur Rank, RKO. After ten years of cautious experimenting and testing, A.R.I, is equipped with everything from Gallup interviewers to electrical gadgets that measure audience boredom. Its trade lingo glitters with professionalisms: A.P. (Audience Penetration), Want-to-See, Don't-Want-to-See, Word-of-Mouth...