Word: father-in-law
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When Howard Hughes sold control of RKO four weeks ago, the buyers promised to clean out the company from stagehands on up. They did, lopping off a batch of executives and underlings. Heading the new cast of characters were President Ralph Stolkin, 34, and his father-in-law, Abraham L. Koolish, 60, a member of the board. Chicagoans Stolkin and Koolish had put up 40% of the down payment* made by their five-man syndicate...
...thought a lot, tried to write a Conrad-like novel. But his old wound was acting up, and he had asthma, insomnia and malaria. His wife and family begged him to leave the service. He still had his ?300 a year, his wife had ?600, and his father-in-law promised: "I'll see you through." Gary decided to settle down in Oxford and be a writer...
...been widely regarded as an efficient administrator, but not as a fighter. "Allan has no affection for lost causes," says one of his friends. "He likes to win." Manager of one of Texas' richest private agricultural empires, the John H. Shary Enterprises, built up by his father-in-law, Shivers is a natural spokesman of anti-Truman Texas farmers and cattlemen, but he has squirmed uneasily at the possibility that he might have to lead his party in actual revolt against the national ticket. To stiffen Shivers' backbone. South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes took him under...
...spread: a little late, l take the liberty of calling to your attention that the picture captioned "Arctic Cache" does not show "supplies left by Peary's 1909 North Pole expedition" but shows the remnants of a depot placed ten years later by the Danish explorer (my father-in-law), the late Admiral Godfred Hansen. The depot was placed in 1919. . . approximately 700 feet north of Peary's old post . . . and was laid out by the third Thule expedition as fourrage for Roald Amundsen in case he should succeed in flying over the North Pole from his expedition...
Mike Zelsmith, film producer, is on the skids. It is years since he won his last Academy Award. His marriage is heading for the breakers while he guzzles Scotch on the rocks. Fed up with Mike's arty epics and domestic antics, his movie magnate father-in-law cuts off his bank credit. The Hollywood gripevine says that Mike Zelsmith, whom "even intellectuals respect," is about to make his first "quickie," a $300,000 thriller...