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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In reporting Bold Venture's Kentucky Derby victory, TIME [May n] says that Bold Venture is a half-brother to a previous Derby winner -Twenty Grand. Geneticists notwithstanding, to thoroughbred horsemen Bold Venture and Twenty Grand are not half-brothers-they are "by the same sire." In layman's language, two horses with the same father and the same mother are full brothers or full sisters. Example: Omaha and Flares. Two horses with the same mother but different fathers are half-brothers or half-sisters. Example: Petee Wrack and Gallant Fox. Two horses with different mothers...
...Grand Rapids provisionally accepted the calamity but never really believed it. It was certainly not the fault of Grand Rapids, said its citizens, but of the evil loose in the world and the merchandising policies of Simmons. In 1934 the City of Grand Rapids hired an industrial engineer to survey the possibilities of reopening Berkey & Gay. Grand Rapids businessmen went into a huddle with promoters. Promoter Frank Donald McKay, who had worked in Grand Rapids furniture factories as a boy. had a long string of organizations and reorganizations to his credit. Poker-faced, astute, potent in Michigan politics, he served...
...rehabilitated Berkey & Gay's first showing last fortnight went more than 700 furniture buyers, nearly three times as many as Grand Rapids drew last year, seven times as many as in 1934. Once indifferent to functionalism, Berkey & Gay had recognized the market for modern stuff (27% of all furniture sold last year) by adding to its period reproductions a line of moderns in "softer form, with sweeping rather than boxlike lines." Promoter McKay, now Berkey & Gay's board chairman, became a hero to Grand Rapids. Enough orders were placed to keep his newly-employed workmen busy for five...
...Sons O' Guns," starring Joe E. Brown, shows what fun the Great War really was. It was all just a grand round of Y. M. C. A. entertainments, lovely French girls, and lots of wine, with a little fighting thrown in to keep everyone in trim. Mr. Brown clowns through this inane plot in a pleasant, fairly amusing way, assisted by Joan Blondell. The stage show, headed by M. Tito Guizar, is incredibly poor. It's hard to tell whether Guizar is trying to be Mexican, Spanish or Italian, but it doesn't matter much. The revue is billed...
...movie built round the story comes very close to excellence because of the great acting of Fred MacMurray, our choice for All-American Role-Transcender. Fred gets rotten parts most of the time and the way he just thinks nothing of it and goes right ahead and does a grand job of acting is beyond comprehension. In this picture he is the aviator who defends the beautiful society blonde (Joan Bennett) from perils that keep changing their shape. He has to do a lot of tricks to preserve his status as guardian, but he does them all gracefully and eventually...