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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Main Line Old Guard hardly knew who he was. Most of Moe Annenberg's millions had come from publications rarely seen in Bryn Mawr: Daily Racing Form, New York Morning Telegraph (a sporting sheet), Radio Guide, Screen Guide, Official Detective Stories. His immensely profitable Nationwide News Service, Inc., which supplies sporting and racing news by telephone to all comers including bookies, was not as well known to men who haunted stock brokerage offices as to those in poolrooms. Even more disconcerting was the legendary reputation he and his older brother Max* acquired in Chicago as hustlers in the bloody...
...Elizaldes are the islands' richest Spanish family. Commissioner "Mike," though born in Manila (1896), was schooled in Spain, served in the Spanish Army, still wears a military haircut. Five years ago he became a Philippine citizen to protect the family business, Elizalde & Co. Inc., a 10,000,000-peso corporation engaged in the hemp, sugar, coconuts, lumber, mining, ranching, shipping, distilling, insurance, etc. business. To President Quezon (whom "Mike" Elizalde calls "one of the greatest men in the world"), his country's future problems seem more economic than political. So whom better could he have in Washington than...
Developed by NBC as a sustaining program, Information Please long attracted no sponsor because agencies thought it appealed to an intellectual, and therefore limited, audience. But last week, at last, the program had a taker-Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. for a reported $2,500 per week. Canada Dry, which once sponsored Jack Benny but has not been on a network for nearly seven years, bought Information Please because it has a fairly large and very vociferous "quality" audience. Its attractions...
Fred Waring (Sat. 8:30 p.m. NBC-Red), after a two-year absence, returns to the air with his famed Pennsylvanians and glee club, for Grove Laboratories. Inc...
Nothing slows up a ship like barnacles on the bottom. Last week the U.S. Maritime Commission agreed that nothing slows up a ship line like barnacles on the top. Giving final approval to a deal whereby the Commission took over the devalued Dollar Steamship Lines, Inc., Ltd. (TIME, Aug. 29), Chairman Emory S. Land, with the bluntness of an old sea dog, put the blame for the Dollar Lines' unhappy state squarely at the door of its former owners. He snapped: "They adopted every conceivable device to drain the earnings and the working capital from the company as rapidly...