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Trade Winds (Walter Wanger-United Artists). On Nov. 24, 1935, Director Tay Garnett sailed from Los Angeles in the yacht Athene. With him he took a camera crew, a complete film laboratory. His object: a 50,000-mile round-the-world cruise to gather material for his next picture. Last week, when the result of his expedition was released as Trade Winds, audiences expected that, as a travelogue, it might be a pleasant surprise...
...most high-handed thing ever handed down." Such was the comment of Garnett C. Skinner last July when a Chicago judge awarded Prima Co., one of five Chicago breweries that survived Prohibition, $568,895 damages because its business had allegedly been run into the ground (TIME, July 26). The damages were against two of Chicago's big banks, First National and Harris Trust & Savings. They had lent Prima Co. a considerable sum,'had become alarmed about their loans, so the Harris Bank suggested that Garnett C. Skinner (a onetime Hearst advertising supervisor) be put in charge...
...seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision, ruled that the banks were not responsible for losses during the Skinner regime. The court found that Prima had never complained about Manager Skinner's work; had, on the contrary, indulged in "praise which amounted at times to adulation." Meanwhile, Garnett Skinner has become general manager of the Springfield, Ill. Brewing...
...newspaper to be fazed by such deficits. Last week, he celebrated the anniversary of his entry into the Fourth Estate by announcing the acquisition of the foreign news service and 14 features from the New York Herald Tribune, including Walter Lippmann, Dorothy Thompson, Mark Sullivan, Book Reviewer Lewis Garnett, Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., Sports Columnist Richards Vidmer and the impeccable Lucius Beebe, to whom Washington dress is "a little like country folks in sports clothes...
Trustees of the prize money balked, last week pleaded with Judge Garnett to give the money to a milk station to supply breast milk. But Judge Garnett, who is also head of the local Masonic Widows & Orphans Home, decided that Needham's will must be obeyed to the last tittle...