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Reached last night in his North Station lair, a minor mogul of the B.&M. admitted he didn't know how long Snotrains have been running;"I couldn't even give you a judicious estimate. But let me toll you one thing, they're all equipped with luxurious modern air conditioned cars, and it only costs $3.25 round trip to North Conway...
...couple of bad breaks" revealed Stretch Cryton, Mastoden gridiron mogul, after his slippery band of touch football titalists dropped a close one to Pierson. His cohort, "balding Stu" Bottle, had already flied to the bluffs...
...first wife and married mahogany-haired Dorothy Blanchard, daughter of an Australian sea captain. With her he answered a syncopated summons from Hollywood. He arrived on the Coast amidst expectant huzzahs. But soon he was weighed in Hollywood's inexplicable scales, and found wanting. One M-G-Mogul passed the verdict around commissaries and conference rooms: "Oscar is a very dear friend of mine, but he can't write...
Great Expectations is one more tribute to J. Arthur Rank's talent as a movie mogul-a talent which appears to consist, most importantly, in furnishing gifted people with the wherewithal and then leaving them severely alone (TIME, May 19). The film (the first English movie to play Manhattan's Music Hall since Clouds Oner Europe, in the cloudy year 1939) will probably fulfill its sponsors' great expectations-both financially and critically. Certainly most Dickensians will love it. And countless people who can't take Dickens are likely to hurry back to that author with...
There was one pleasant surprise. The Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, invited all of official New Delhi and the delegates to a cozy at home with guards flanking the fountains and spotlights playing on the fabulous flowerbeds of the Mogul gardens. Englishmen and Indians alike were surprised by the outpouring of guests (about 700). Said a Mountbatten aide, remarking the presence of dhoti-clad Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's son: "People are here who would never have attended the Viceroy's affairs in the old days." (This week Mohandas Gandhi planned to visit Viceroy House to talk about Britain...