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Soblen immediately appealed-and began scouting around for money to pay his bail, set at $100,000. Bonding agencies refused to lend anything, so his wife scraped up $40,000 out of savings and life insurance policies. An acquaintance, George Kirstein, publisher of the liberal weekly, the Nation, rounded up the remaining $60,000. He called Mrs. Helen Lehman Buttenwieser, wealthy wife of an investment banker, niece of New York's ex-Senator Herbert H. Lehman, and herself a sometime attorney for Alger Hiss...
...lend the ultimate air of TV reality, there will be a sponsor's booth commanding a view of the stage and auditorium, and equipped, of course, with television monitors so that the sponsor will feel right at home. It will also be mercifully soundproofed so that the sponsor may flick on his own commercials without disturbing the audience below. Facing the sponsor's booth is a tier of three picture-windowed control rooms on the other side of the hall. One is for recording, one is for radio, and one is for television...
Solvents not only deferred payment of the $550,000 debt but agreed to lend Estes an additional $350,000-a credit of $125,000 for future purchases of anhydrous ammonia, plus $225,000 to enable Estes to get started in the grain-storage business. Estes, now into Commercial Solvents for $900,000, promised to pay off the debt in installments over a five-year span. As part of the overall deal, Estes agreed to assign to Commercial Solvents 100% of the fees he got for storing grain...
...gloomier metaphor was ever coined to lend a semblance of shape to man's long struggle through history. Cultures, said Oswald Spengler, are limited biological forms of life?like inchworms, like oak trees, like men. Mysteriously born, they inexorably grow old, decay according to discernible pattern and then die. What is more, Spengler insisted, Western culture has already reached the last stages of its allotted life span...
Sons and Lovers does not lend itself easily to a movie script, but Jack Cardiff has transformed Lawrence's novel into a superb film. The reader must follow a slow and agonizing series of conflicting passions presented in a style which is often deceptively complex. Through a skillful rearrangement of plot elements and dialogue Cardiff has condensed the novel into an hour and 45 minutes without sacrificing its subtlety and force...