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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will double its 1939 output, will bundle up 10,000,000 model sets to be put together and flown by youngsters and hobby-minded oldsters. In 1938, business was good, Comet grossed "closer to $1,000,000 than $500,000," expects to pass the $1,000,000 mark...
Novelist John Steinbeck, 37, whose best-selling Grapes of Wrath has passed the 155,000th mark, took his sore throat (from a recent tonsillectomy) and his badgered personality into seclusion in a California canyon, far from literary clubs and literary lion hunters. Said he: "I'm no public speaker, and I don't want...
...still going places. Into Willkie's office come 500 letters weekly, all urging him to keep up the fight, many predicting that it will wind up with him in the White House. On these Wendell Willkie casts an interested' but realistic eye. Stamped with anti-New Deal mark, he is still too much of a liberal to suit old-line Republicans. When friends ask him whether he intends to be a candidate he answers, "Wouldn't I be a sucker...
Neville Miller got his first real taste of radio when, as mayor of Louisville, Ky., he directed emergency crews during the 1937 Ohio-Mississippi flood. After a spell as executive assistant to Princeton University's President Dodds, Neville Miller returned to the air, succeeded his friend, Louisville Newspaperman Mark Ethridge, as president of the National Association of Broadcasters. Today his rich baritone, speaking for 428 N. A. B. members, is an articulate voice for the U. S. radio industry. Last week, with the industry noisily congregated at N. A. B.'s 17th annual convention in noisy Atlantic City...
...easy to beat. Smart Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick to his job. One of the funny things about Pinky Smith is that he is dazzled by being a newspaperman...