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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Ted Peckham, New York King of Gigolos, a Hollywood branch to provde escorts for bored spinsters and tired business girls will be opened soon. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton head the list of Social Registerites with 70 men, while Stanford and U.S.C. have only 23 between them. All men are at least five feet, ten inches tall...
...whom King Edward summoned just before leaving London on his last slumming tour to South Wales. Mr. Malcolm Stewart, as he then was, had long fought what seemed to him the do -nothing -for -the -Depressed -Areas policy of the Government. Sir Malcolm was knighted in the Honors List published last month (TIME, Feb. 8), and the White Paper of last week marked a combined vindication and surrender of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin...
Though Flagstad is the Metropolitan's prime drawing card, its German wing- with Rethberg, Lehmann, Melchior, Schorr, List-was the world's finest even before her arrival. When Edward Johnson became general manager, he knew better than to tamper with the wing that artistically and box-officially is his best. The Italian and French wings were in less happy state, and Johnson combed Europe last summer engaging fresh singers...
...list of 15 stocks most popular with investment trusts, compiled annually by Frazier, Jelke & Co., Manhattan brokers, appeared a notable new name last week. Tied for 15th place with Westinghouse Electric was U. S. Steel, which was not in the list even in 1929, when the company made $197,000,000 and its stock sold at a high of $261 per share.* As it turned out, U. S. Steel was a good stock to avoid, for it sank to a Depression low of $21 and even at the turn of this year could be bought for $75 per share...
...favorite was Consolidated Gas, followed by Electric Bond & Share and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. All these have since disappeared from the list, which is now led by General Motors, International Nickel and Chrysler. *So urgent is its rearmament program that Britain last week halved its 20% duty on steel, abolished its duty on iron...