Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood...
...first Alsifilm was whitish and opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...
...show business, most working performers belong to unions. The union which is supposed to take care of vaudevillians, night-club entertainers, circus performers and such is the imposingly-named American Federation of Actors. Like other entertainers' unions, the A. F. A. is more or less tied to the apron strings of a mother, the Associated Actors and Artistes of America ("Four A's"). Watchful grandma is the American Federation of Labor. Last week in Manhattan, Mother Four A's had A. F. A. with its pants down ready for a spanking. Grandma stood...
...room of Jersey City's First National Bank one day last week sat handsome, strapping Oscar Cintas, a long Cuban cigarette between his slim fingers, a sleekly rolled umbrella between his well-tailored knees. Across the table, and nervous under Oscar Cintas' blazing black eyes, sat gnome-like Charlie Hardy. Jampacked in the room were some 125 A. C. F. stockholders, come to the annual meeting to see Hardy and Cintas, no longer friends, have...
Conservative banking houses like Morgan Stanley & Co. (divorced underwriting half of J. P. Morgan & Co.) and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have held themselves coolly aloof from competition for security issues. Their position is that terms reached in direct negotiations with a single underwriter, thoroughly familiar with the financing company, are more likely to be best for borrower and investor than those that come out of a fierce competition among a group of bidding underwriters. Competitive bidding, they hold, "tends to overpricing the issue . . . and to subsequent dissatisfaction and losi of credit and good will of the borrower...