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...Great Living Americans" is the name on the pigeon-hole into which Coronet Magazine has placed President Conant, who will be profiled in the January issue of the magazine by Lester Velie. Velie reveals that Conant piled up 250,000 miles of travel during...
...long ago they heard of another amateur musician who had just written a bit of music: Actor Lionel Barrymore. They asked for permission to premiere his newest work in Chicago. It turned out to be a piano concerto-which was a little disconcerting. Explained First Violinist Lester Baker, a railway freight statistician: "As a rule accompaniments are so uninteresting to play, but the melodies of the Barrymore concerto lay so well on the various instruments that our members felt impelled to rise to the occasion." Barrymore made just one stipulation: that he be allowed to choose the soloist. He chose...
...sell it and call the profit a capital gain, taxable at 25% instead of 85-95%, the top tax on ordinary income. A producer can either 1) sell his interest as a stockholder in the corporation; or 2) dissolve the company that made the picture. An example: Independent Producer Lester Cowan, who made Story of G.I. Joe and Tomorrow the World, sold his interest as a stockholder at a net profit of $1,000,000. By paying only a 25% capital-gains tax, he pocketed $750,000 as compared to the mere $100,000 he would have...
Crane Brinton '19, Professor of History, who has just returned from three years of work with the office of strategic Services, has been named as resident head proctor in McKinlock. He will be assisted by Lester R. Ott, a graduate student in History, and by David Easton, a teaching fellow in Government...
...Consultation fee of John J. Anthony (formerly Lester Kroll, taxi driver) of radio's Original Good-Will Hour was $25, but people who could not afford the fee might arrange to have their troubles aired over the radio. Mrs. Steiner asked Mr. Anthony his qualifications. He said he had "studied all the psychiatrists' work" and claimed that he had advised Vassar College on an Institute of Marital Relations (which Vassar does not have), and that Princeton had asked him to start an "experimental station." Nowhere to Go. Wherever she went, Mrs. Steiner saw people needing and paying...