Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year Keller graduated (1901) Walter Chrysler lost his tuba, and the month Keller left the Mount Joy High School Chrysler married sweet-faced Della Forker in the Methodist church at their home town, Ellis, Kans. From then on, life was all business for Walter Chrysler. He left the railroad business as a shop foreman for Chicago Great Western, became works manager for American Locomotive Co., got his first job in the automobile business in 1911 (age 36) as works manager for Buick...
From the start, life was all business for K. T. Keller. After putting himself through a business school-on money scraped together in such variegated activities as raising squabs and working in factories-he spent two years in the British Isles as secretary to a lecturer, returned at 21 convinced that his future lay not in a white collar but in overalls. At the Westinghouse Machine Co. plant in Pittsburgh he found what he wanted: two years apprenticeship as a machinist at 20? an hour. And in Detroit he found experience in half-a-dozen grimy shops...
...Keller that is no more reason for taking life easier than it is for any other Detroit motormaker. "This game," he says, "isn't a puzzle that you can lay down and pick up again; it's like a bridge hand and you have to play it every minute...
Intermezzo (Selznick-lnternational) is a pleasant, leisurely filming of an off-key love episode in the life of a middle-aged man with a middle-aging wife (Edna Best). In Hollywood's current concern with musicians, it plays a thin, modest, molto andante treble to such thumping pictures as They Shall Have Music (Jascha Heifetz), The Star Maker (Walter Dam-rosch). Rare top notes are contributed by Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's leading cinemactress, whose grave good looks, lit by a big-mouthed smile, make her one of the most promising Scandinavian exports since Garbo...
...love Henry but do not like him," and Emerson, who knew how she felt, often quoted her wisecrack. Even closer to Henry was his crony, Poet Ellery Channing, who wrote the first Thoreau biography. Channing once confessed: "I have never been able to understand what he meant by his life...