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...reviewers in 1931 when the brother-and-sister act last went on in Broadway's The Band Wagon. Then the girl went off to get married, but Fred Astaire got along on his own. Now, 34 years later, at the biennial Philharmonic Ball in Rochester's Eastman mansion, Fred, 66, accepted the George Eastman House Award, then twinkled with Sister Adele Astaire Douglass, 67, through some of the old steps from Funny Face and Lady Be Good...
...Eastman Kodak Co., casting about for an advertising slogan to sell its product, came up with "You press the button, we do the rest." The slogan worked and, with a little help from the corner druggist, cameras sold. George Eastman's success was a bitter pill for a 24-year-old photographer named Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz was not selling a competing product; he was coveting recognition for photography, in particular, his photography, as art.
...companies now have more than 3,000 subsidiaries in Europe, and the percentage of big ones bossed by local citizens has risen to 40% in Italy, 55% in Britain and 65% in West Germany. Such giants as Woolworth, Singer, Eastman Kodak and National Cash Register make a point of manning all their top posts with Europeans. More and more Europeans are being promoted to high commands in Jersey Standard, Corn Products, Socony Mobil and U.S. Rubber. What these companies have brought forth is an urbane and multilingual group of managers who combine European emotions with U.S. business methods- and make...
...Leonid Andreyev drama for which it was written; the black maskers of the title are supposed to be the powerful but unfathomable forces that act on man's soul. Three other short, appealing works by Americans (Walter Piston, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness) are played by Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra...
...than 200,000 copies of Benjamin's Coffee Cookbook, written for General Foods' Maxwell House Division, have been grabbed up. Special books have been written on gun ammunition for Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.'s Winchester-Western Division, on bowling for AMF Co. and on photography for Eastman Kodak...