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...every way, young Mr. Paley neither denied nor affirmed. Merely pointing out that record sales are currently booming, he preferred to relate a curious little chapter of corporate counterpoint: one of American Record Corp.'s subsidiaries is famed old Columbia Phonograph Co. which dipped CBS into the baptismal fount eleven years ago, sold the little starveling three months later...
Recent and hectic research into his moldy History 1 notes has told the Vagabond, with all that bluntness and clarity which characterized his first eager draughts of knowledge at Professor Merriman's fount so many "eras" ago, that Waterloo was an inconsequential little place near Brussels where a great British man called Wellington, whose family name was Wellesley, and a German man named Blucher, first recipient of the Iron Cross, were fortunate enough to crush a great French man named Napoleon on June 18, 1815. Napoleon, who once held a commission as second lieutenant of artillery...
...that historic clue, the scene of Mahogany Hall might be any one of a dozen U. S. cities. The play is a moony obeisance to that fount of so much good & bad dramatic material, the brothel. Across its one majestic set parade half a dozen wenches, chipper lads and befuddled dignitaries in dinner jackets, a grafting commissioner, sinister "backers." a youth in love with an inmate, a twittering astrologist. a blundering social worker, a moody "Professor" (Eduardo Ciannelli), a baleful headmistress (Olga Baclanova ) who keeps everything under control until she falls in love with the Professor. It takes almost...
...Castoria, Life Savers, 3-In-One Oil, Danderine, Bayer's Aspirin, Vitalis, Vick's Vapo-Rub, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Ingram's Shaving Cream, Gastrogen Tablets, Sal Hepatica, Ipana, Cascarets and scores of other things to purge, beautify, bolster and assuage mortal beings. A lesser fount of Drug income is in its control (75%) of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the owner of the 900 famed Boots Cash Chemists shops which are scattered throughout England...
...other newly confirmed Commissioners are Sam Pickard (Kansas), Harold A. La Fount (Utah), Ira E. Robinson (West Virginia). E. O. Sykes (Tennessee) was sole member and acting chairman of the Commission while Congress debated its continued existence last month...