Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back for three delightful acts of life to the strains of Schubert. Hence you overlook a lot of unconvincing acting, and laugh off a lot of beery buffoonery as largely irrelevant pleasantry. The only strict demand to be made is for good singing, and Everett Marshall, Frank Hornaday, Marie Nash and Martha Errolle give Schubert a very fair treatment. If you like light operetta, and it's a dreadful boor who doesn't "Blossom Time" is among the best...
Director Mack had got cooperation that was worthwhile. Nash-Kelvinator shaved the price on 25,000 electric refrigerators to $52 each (retail price $105). A medicine cabinetmaker knocked down his wholesale price from $5 to $2. Another Midwestern manufacturer, after quoting rock bottom on about 30,000 bath tubs, confided: "But you can save $2 a tub if you buy the fittings from the same people we buy them from." So Mack bought "stripped" tubs, got fittings for them from the cheaper source. Savings: almost $60,000 on tubs alone. Said Director Mack, pleased as Punch...
Cook County (Chicago) gave the Kelly-Nash machine's Democratic Senatorial nominee, Lawyer James M. Slattery, a lead over Republican Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks. But late counts from down State Republican Illinois gave Curly Brooks a chance...
Attorney, who helped send Capone to prison, had gone all out on a roaring campaign against the Kelly-Nash machine, which had chosen his opponent: long-faced, long-nosed, curly-haired Harry...
...Carnegie contemporary section was well hung by slight, white-pated ex-Jockey Jack Nash, who always hangs the International show, invariably guesses the first-prize winner before the jury picks it. He knows how artist jurors' minds work. This year there are no Carnegie prizes, but the Institute set aside $5,000 to buy pictures from the show. Last week Jack Nash was stumped, made no predictions. The purchases will be made by the Fine Arts Committee, composed of laymen, and laymen's choices are beyond Jack Nash...