Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best bets remaining: Canada's shrewd, easy-going Ambassador to Washington, Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, and Norway's jovial, capable Trygve...
...victory loans, 50 Hollywood stars had toured the Dominion, had made seven film shorts and 37 radio transcriptions. In a gesture of gratitude, Canada took over the pale green sunroom (for cocktails) and the green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders, maître d'hotel sent down from the Vancouver Hotel...
...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...