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...Meets Girl, which dealt laughably with the foibles of Hollywood, were well received, Mr. Crump has written a play about a heavily-accented cinemagnate who gets into great and voluble trouble because his blonde star skips out in the middle of a picture, leaving him with a "nut" (overhead) of $10,000 per day. Don't Look Now differs very considerably from Once in a Lifetime, Twentieth Century, Personal Appearance and Boy Meets Girl, principally by not being funny...
...sent the Digest a telegram which consisted of the word HA! repeated 50 times. The radical New Masses showed a cartoon cop barking into a microphone: "Pick up a nut at the Literary Digest office. He keeps trying to buy the joint for two bits ." Even the august New York Times hurled a smug thunderbolt: "Among the rewards or consolations of this Presidential election, most citizens will have already made up a 'little list' of political nuisances of which they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture to show...
...Beech-Nut Packing, No. 2 U. S. gummaker as well as a food company, reported nine-month earnings of $2,123,441 as against $1,596,108 in the same period last year...
...began the harvest of what promises to be the shortest pecan* crop in more than a decade. Government estimates for the new crop are 33,330,000 Ib. compared with a bumper yield of 95,340,000 Ib. in 1935. Not one cent will be earned by the Texas nut grove of the most eminent U. S. pecan grower, John Nance Garner. Just before he broadcast his only campaign speech from his home in Uvalde, the Vice President let it be known that his pecans were this year a total failure, declaring: "I'm just leaving the whole crop...
Precipitous drops in the U. S. pecan harvest are nothing new but growers do not agree on reasons. Some say that nut pests thrive so well on a good crop that they appear in legions to infest the next one. Some say that rain did not fall at the right time, others that "pecan trees are just that...