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United Artists' liveliest members are David Selznick, Walter Wanger and Sam Goldwyn in Hollywood, Alexander Korda in London. In New York last week for conferences were Producers Selznick and Korda, and Producer Selznick's chief backer, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Chief problem before Selznick International was still: who will play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind? Last week Producer Selznick failed to substantiate a rumor that Rhett had been assigned to an obscure American actor discovered in British cinema named Ken Duncan. Backer Whitney's wife, Philadelphia's sprightly onetime...
President Williams, whose board chair-man and biggest stockholder is John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was apparently expressing no more than a pious hope. Only a few days before he released his report the people of Texas in the persons of the committee on revenue & taxation in the lower house of the Texas Legislature voted 11-to-6 to boost the sulphur tax from $1.03 to $2. To the dismay of Freeport and Texas Gulf witnesses and pleaders on the scene, the committee came within one vote of amending the bill to make...
John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
Last week's match was a contest to determine a new world champion. Last world champion was Charles Williams of the Chicago Racquet Club who won the title from J. Jamsetji of Bombay in 1911 lost it to Jock Soutar of Philadelphia 1913, won it back in 1929, held it until his death in 1935. Setzler, son of a Buffalo corset salesman, was apprenticed to his father's friend, George Standing, longtime New York Racquet Club professional, in 1920. Last year, at 31, he won the U. S.open championship against socialite experts like Clarence Pell, Stanley G. Mortimer...
...list of pocket-sized monthly magazines on the U. S. newsstand, a newcomer was added this week in the shape of Commentator, with Radio's Commentator Lowell Thomas billed as editor-in-chief. Backer-in-chief was Charles Shipman Payson, the tall, rusty-haired Manhattan lawyer whom Jock Whitney's sister Joan married. His ambition to be a publisher appears to have been fired by the thought that the commentators of radio probably had facts & opinions to give the world which radio's timorous self-censorship bottles up before the microphone...