Word: franke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Real Culprits. The case for support was made before the American Bankers Association last week in Detroit by its former president, Frank C. Rathje, of Chicago's Mutual National Bank. Dropping the peg, he said, might well "provoke a storm." The real inflationary culprits, charged Rathje, were not the banks, but the non-bank lending agencies, primarily the insurance companies...
Clift recently finished his third picture, William Wyler's The Heiress. Now he is committed to Liberty Films, a Paramount subsidiary, for three more (which must be directed by Wyler, Frank Capra or George Stevens). Meanwhile, he is free to accept offers from Broadway, where he is also in great demand. One offer is for Lillian Hellman's forthcoming dramatization of the best-selling The Naked and the Dead. Clift doesn't know whether he'll do it : he hasn't seen the script...
...Published in 1945 by the Essex Institute (75?). Most famous contemporary member of the family was the late Frank Crowninshield, urbane (and unpredictable) art critic and onetime editor of Vanity Fair (TIME, Jan. 5), who sometimes spoofed secretarial job hunters by showing them pictures of gauze-draped dancers, remarking, "This is what we do Saturday afternoons...
Modern Tempo. In Portland, Ore., Frank A. Staeger, questioned for holding up traffic, explained to police that he had fallen asleep while waiting for the light to change...
Hospitality. In Chicago, the Frank Catalanos lost their apartment when they admitted keeping two dogs, three cats, a tank full of goldfish, a tank of minnows, a two-foot alligator, two pigeons, three parrots, six canaries, three parakeets, five cockateels, a hamster...