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...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...
...Leon. With each passingplay, she appears more youthful -her face lineless, her figure trim, her carriage gracefully girlish. In acting subservient to her husband while deftly stage-managing everything, she strongly recalls those '30s heroines of S.N. Behrman's comedies who used to be played by Ina Claire or Katharine Cornell. Harrison and Harris salvage Rattigan, who, though famed for his theatrical carpentry, has on this occasion whittled out a toothpick drama. T.E. Kalem
Just since Jan. 1, companies have announced stock repurchases adding up to nearly $1.4 billion-a total already more than double the figure for all 1972. The ranks of the corporate buyers include AMF, American Broadcasting, American Cyanamid, Continental Can, Gulf & Western, INA, Olin Corp., Raytheon and United Aircraft. Gulf Oil, through a tender offer, is acquiring 13 million of its own shares worth around $338 million, making Gulf Chairman Bob Dorsey probably the biggest stock repurchaser ever...
When 20-year-old Ina Stephanie Weiner took off from her home in Miami early last September and headed for Montreal in her mother's panel truck, she said she was going to take along a friend and drop him off in New Jersey. A week later, in the farm lands of Somerset County, Md., Ina's badly beaten and decomposed body was found stuffed into her sleeping bag. Police charged that her New Jersey-bound friend, Henry King, 23, of Chesapeake, Va., had killed her, then stolen the truck and her belongings. King was eventually caught...