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...artist, Irwin earnestly and frequently explained to the press, he was hurt by what happened to his scripts after he turned them in. Words were changed. Sometimes whole scenes were struck out by some thick-fingered fur salesman who had never read anything more difficult than a ledger. Sizzling from Hollywood's ignominies (and loaded with Hollywood's gold), Scriptwriter Shaw last year at last devised a stratagem to baffle the barbarians. He wrote a picture and then produced it himself-at a cost of about a million. This is it and he loves it. "For the first...
...between them. But once they were married, Shaw grew to depend heavily on her protective, intelligent presence. A gifted hostess, Charlotte became as well an acute, sympathetic critic of her husband's work and even helped suggest to him the themes of several successful plays. In scrapbook and ledger, she kept close tally of Shaw's growing fame and fortune, and went so far as to answer the love letters he continued to receive from impassioned female admirers...
...fact which led the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger to headline an Associated Press story: CALIFORNIAN is CHARGED WITH MURDER OF EVERS...
Such sums put the five-company "Barclays group" at the head of Britain's Big Five banks and only a notch below such overseas competitors as the U.S.'s First National City and Chase Manhattan. Off the ledger, however, Barclays is little like any of them. It dates back to 1694 as a private bank, but was put together in its present form in 1896. when it joined forces with 19 other small private banks. All retained a local autonomy, and even today Barclays' city headquarters at 54 Lombard Street in London is only...
...concluded the Clarion-Ledger's man on the scene, "we think he deflated them, students, professors, and picketers all." Barnett himself was convinced "we made an impression and some friends...