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Valuable Loss. Last September, attracted by a tax loss of $11 million, Sonnabend bought control of Botany Mills, an oldtime worsted manufacturer hard hit by the textile depression. To make use of its tax loss, Botany bought money-making Gastonia Combed Yarn Corp., Jewel Cotton Mills and Gurney Mfg. for $14 million. By writing its losses off against the mills' profits, the purchase was made largely an intracompany, bookkeeping operation, cost Botany little in cash...
...would rather wander through the Fulton fish market than sit signing autographs at Sardi's, and she is probably happiest of all when she is backstage at Yankees, feeling herself a part of the show's color and action. Says Director Abbott: "She's a complete jewel-quick, indefatigable, cooperative and objective. She knows what's good for the show and what's good for her. She'll rehearse for hours and never complain. And though she has a mind of her own, she never questions any decision." Unlike the producers...
...matter of stance and stride, of paying a compliment or wearing a coat. It was something men commanded in the stress of business . . ." And in the stress of the business of criticism, Kronenberger commands an unmatched style. For he can balance a sentence as if it were a crown jewel on a velvet pillow; and he can also, occasionally, throw the pillow across the hall at a particularly dull archdeacon. The chief merit of The Republic of Letters (besides establishing the author as one of that republic's leading citizens) is a feeling it generates in the reader...
...mild, tactful and polite fellow, had an insidious talent for winning the confidence of shady characters. The labyrinths of Parisian vice being what they are, Loulou was also skill ful at extricating prominent citizens from embarrassing situations. Once he got the delicate task of recovering a royal jewel impulsively presented by a visiting for eign prince to a professional homosexual...
...competition is tougher. She could always give up the whole thing for the role of wealthy young socialite. But if her studio mentors are wise, and if Grace is as wary as she has so far proved to be, the young beauty from Philadelphia may yet become an authentic jewel in Hollywood's tinsel crown...