Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Johnston says insurance men estimate Son James's income from his Boston insurance firm (Roosevelt & Sargent Inc.) between $250,000 and $2,000,000 per year, says he built it to that by "twisting" accounts away from other agents by political leverage. Items...
Married. Elizabeth Schermerhorn Young, 24, sometime cinemactress (Queen Christina), stage star (All the Living); divorced (1937) wife of Joseph Mankiewicz, M-G-M writer-producer; to Eugene Reynal, 36, socialite president of Blue Ribbon Books Inc.; in Manhattan...
...latter view is taken by the editors of Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin (chemical news and scientific miscellany), who discussed the British dew ponds in last week's issue and gave an explanation of the heat economy which makes them possible. "Recent research," said the Bulletin, "has shown that water is nearly perfect as a 'black body' or a body that easily gives off heat by radiation." The pond must keep cool so that dew will condense in it, and so that it will not lose much water by evaporation. If it is insulated...
...hired Pressagent Steve Hannagan, whose technique runs more to figures than to facts. Pressagent Hannagan's choice to set off the Century's, maiden jaunt was blonde, beautiful Model Virginia judd, who wore a frock of Twentieth Century grey. Public relations counsel for Pennsylvania was Ivy Lee, Inc., trained in less frivolous accounts like the Rockefeller interests. Counsel Lee countered with solidity: Sophie Tucker...
Screen writers have been trying to organize an effective union since 1933, when producers summarily cut their pay 50%. Principal result has been sharp rivalry between the Screen Writers Guild Inc. (membership 500) and Screen Playwrights Inc. (membership 130). When Screen Playwrights last year signed a contract with seven major studios, the S. W. G. responded by asking NLRB to make it the sole bargaining agent for screen writers. Last week, after considering the evidence for over eight months, NLRB ruled that...