Word: manns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time it's Gable as the confidence man who runs Yellow Crik, Nevada and is married to a little Boston wide-eye after a drinking bout. Imagination can supply the details. Marjorie Mann plays her usual role of the One Bright Spot in the Program. There is a Hays ending, as might be expected, with Gable promising not to rook the good citizens of Yellow Crik, Nevada. Put this one down to experience though don't blame it on bad acting but bad casting and a hackneyed plot. Turner having a baby and pulling a Durbin act calls...
...suit concerned Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. (twelve of the strongest Hearst papers and American Weekly), whose preferred stock was sold to the public for $50,000,000 in 1930. The plaintiff: Samuel Mann, a New Yorker who has 332 shares of the stock and a lawyer son. The general charge: that Consolidated had been dominated by Hearst (who owns common-stock control) for the benefit of his privately owned "upstream" companies. The demand: restitution to Consolidated of $32,500,000 which it was claimed had been lost through intercorporate finagling...
...that kind of money, Samuel Mann & son were entitled to feel pretty good. But Hearst and his associates were absolved of fraud or bad faith. Aware that most of the verdict could be paid off by canceling a $4,200,000 Consolidated debt to the upstream companies, they thought that they had won the suit...
...Scott, Harvard, 30:40; 15, Bob Jay, Harvard, 80:41; 16, Don McCaul, Harvard, 30:42; 17, Chuck Cleavey, Yale, 30:43; 18, Bob Osborn, Princeton, 31:08; 19, Bill Gardner, Yale, 31:16; 20, Ed Essertier, Princeton, 31:18; 21, Kay Rogers, Harvard, 31:31; 22, Walter Mann, Yale, 31:33; 23, Tom Whitin, Princeton, 32:40; 25, Joe Quay, Princeton...
Yale Varsity entries will be Captain Bill Bird, Wil Castle, John Ashton, Charles Cleaver, Grange, Coffin, Bill Coughlin, Bill Gardner, Dave Harris, Walt Mann, and Roy Schwarizkopf...