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...sales by 54% and earnings by almost 200% in a year. Revson's promotional trademark was his practice of pairing his products with models who seemed to reflect their times. In the 1950s, it was sleek Suzy Parker, in the 1960s, Barbara Britton. Currently, it is breezy Lauren Hutton...
...good to know all about the wayward economics of big business that caused the Depression, and about the NRA, unemployment curves, the deprivations of the Dust Bowl and Social Security. But what about the time Huey Long met Ina Ray Hutton? Moments like this-of which there are many in Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?-may not change history, but they can bring it close as no transcript or statistic can. It is the unproclaimed thesis of this breezy, weightless chronicle of the Depression that time is the sum of events great and small, and that the footnotes...
...record, Ina Ray Hutton, with her all-girl orchestra in the background, presents the Governor of Louisiana with a rendition of his own composition, Every Man a King. The Governor is seated during the performance, blank-faced and staring straight ahead as one hand flaps in an approximation of syncopation. He thanks Ina Ray and allows that her chances are good, although for what he does not say. The singer and the politician look and sound, accordingly, like contestant and M.C. on some cosmic amateur hour...
...step right up and meet Axel (James Caan), the gambler as existential hero, a man determined to risk not only money but the love of family, a good woman (Lauren Hutton) and self...
Running Out. Hutton, like many other brokerages, is suffering from a shortage of capital. Except for a handful of big houses that have sold their own stock to the public, most brokerages subsist on capital contributed by partners and term loans from outside investors; as the loans mature, the outsiders have lately tended to take their money and run. Hutton's partners put another $380,000 into the business in May and negotiated a revised loan agreement with two banks; but even so, the firm last month had less than $1 of capital for every $10 of debts...