Word: heath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When food is at last sneaked them by a waiter (Alexander Asro) who has been promised a part in their show, Mr. Loeb, after the most voracious eating scene since Mclntyre & Heath in The Ham Tree, amiably suggests that a small part be written in for the chef. In addition to the mortal drolleries of these accomplished comedians, a flanking barrage of laughs is provided by the continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn...
...business weekly called The Financial Observer appeared in Manhattan's downtown section (TIME, Feb. 15). At $10 a year, The Financial Observer booked 1,000 subscribers, among them J. P. Morgan. Newsstand sales went to 9,000 a week. Backer of the Observer was one John Bruce Heath. His respectable and even eminent staff* understood John Bruce Heath was a ; big capitalist from Canada. Actually this compelling little personage with a soft voice and wonderfully persuasive eyes was not John Bruce Heath at all but John Neville. He had been jailed for fraud in Illinois, was wanted...
...news began to break when an $8,500 Observer check for advertising promotion "bounced" from Manhattan's Chemical Bank & Trust Co. Since Mr. Heath had functioned as treasurer of Observer Co., up to this point not a soul had suspected that the paper's books would not bear auditing. Headed by Managing Director Eugene MacLean, onetime Washington Post general manager, the Observer editors promptly asked a court for an assignee to preserve the weekly's remaining assets. Next thing the staff knew, New York State Assistant Attorney General Bernard Abramson was in the office on "an anonymous...
Cedric Seager and John Bruce Heath, promoters of the Financial Observer, had in mind neither of the paper's models when they agitated it last year. Briton and American, they had in mind the revered London Economist. They hired Novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman (The House of Bondage) for editor, transferred him from the Washington Post to the Observer's Manhattan office. Editor Kauffman appointed as his general manager the Post's General Manager Eugene MacLean. Executive Editor of the Observer is Columbia University's economist, Ralph West Robey...
...column might awaken a similar response on behalf of America's greatest and, at one time, most beloved upland game bird. In fact, Rex. king of grouse, truly depicts what would be so lacking in our woodlands, if allowed to go the way of the passenger pigeon and heath...