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...Heaven is the kind of swift, smooth whodunit which Hollywood can achieve by letting its good performers perform without unnecessary interference. Well fitted for such free rein is Swedish-born Ingrid Bergman, who makes a patterned ingénue role as important as many a prima donna's meatiest dramatic excursion...
When at last the Examiner comes on board to judge them, the audience settles back to relish the play's meatiest, juiciest moments. But they are also its weakest: the inquisitor is too whimsically conceived, vice is too glibly punished, virtue too sentimentally recompensed. Perhaps a better artist (though a less canny storyteller) would have rung down his curtain as his characters, in bewilderment and trepidation, reached the threshold of their eternal home. It takes at least a Dante to draw a convincing diagram of Hell...
This little ditty, no less than 60 years old, is one of the meatiest definitions of short-selling ever penned. Last week as trading in May grain contracts drew to a close on the Chicago Board of Trade, the economic profundity of the Gould definition was clearly demonstrated once again. Speculators had sold corn they did not own for delivery on the last trading day in May. Of course, the speculators hoped that in the meantime they could buy back the corn they had sold at lower prices. But instead of going down corn went up, up, up. By last...
President Hopkins believes in the game. The meatiest single sentence in his statement is this: "I do not want to see it exalted to its ruin by uncomprehending forces outside the college life not do I want to see it stifled to its death by exasperated forces within." He sees, what many another student of the situation perceives, that the sport has become an enormous business overshadowing almost all other forms of college activity, and that the men who make the team and great numbers of students who do not reach the varsity, live, through many months of the year...
Last week the stockholders of the Curtis Publishing Co. of Philadelphia (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) cut their Christmas pie-one of the richest, meatiest pies since Little Jack Homer's. They voted themselves a Christmas dividend of $70,000,000 by approving the company's plan to increase the preferred stock from 200,000 to 900,000 shares and to distribute these shares (worth $70,000,000) among the holders of the 900,000 shares of common stock outstanding. This is one of the largest stock dividends ever declared. Its percentage is surpassed only...