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...Queen changes herself into a witch. Unlike the original Grimm Brothers' Queen, this one does not waste time trying to comb Snow White's hair with a poisoned comb or choke her by pulling her laces too tight. With white eyes leering from her hag's hood and a pimple on her nose, she pops up at the hut after the dwarfs have gone to work. Snow White forgets the dwarfs told her not to let anyone in. She takes a bite of the red, delicious-looking poisoned apple. The apple brings the sleeping death for which...
National League. After a season of chasing Charley Grimm's Chicago Cubs, who had managed to keep in first place from mid-June until the first of September, the Giants were last week trying to maintain a 27-game lead over the Cubs, with 17 games to play. Frank Frisch's St. Louis Cardinals, generally rated to finish first in pre-season prognostications, had managed to stay in the first division, not so much by the pitching of famed Dizzy Dean as by the performance of the season's outstanding batter, Outfielder Joe Medwick. whose average...
DEATH WITHOUT BATTLE - Ludwig Renn - Dodd, Mead ($2). Cinematic story, lent a Grimm's fairy-tale touch by primer characterizations and writing, of Communists and disillusioned Storm Troopers in Hitler Germany; by the author of War and After...
...world. In 1920 he was $400,000 in debt, by 1926 was a millionaire in his own right. Early in 1932 he bought a controlling interest in Pacific Western Oil Corp., a rich California producer. He put his father's executor, H. Paul Grimm, in as president. Pacific Western was Oilman Getty's springboard to big Tide Water. Pacific Western dipped into surplus funds, bought 360,000 shares of Tide Water Associated Oil Co. common stock at depression prices while Mr. Getty and other Getty interests acquired 500,000 other shares. Tide Water directors quickly...
...Getty tried to secure the repeal of the three-year term for directors and defeat two other amendments sponsored by the management which he considered inimical to stockholders' rights. According to lean, curly-haired Mr. Getty, President Humphrey and nine other Tide Water directors besides himself and Mr. Grimm controlled only 8½% of the company's stock, yet they ran it and sought to perpetuate themselves. But the other stockholders, having been solicited by both sides, stuck by the management. Mr. Getty lost on each point, was unseated as a director. Although he would have lost anyway...