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...cigar-fogged suite in Washington's Shoreham Hotel, negotiators for the nation's soft-coal operators drooped dejectedly. For a weary month they had failed to lure labor's one-man theater into writ-fag a new contract for his United Mine Workers. Now the nation was living on stored coal. And now, because his only specific demand (for a miners' health & welfare fund) had been turned down, Lewis was about to halt even the pretense of negotiation. Balefully he intoned...
...Brand in His Bonnet. The changeover from one-man control to many-man control began for McCormick & Co. in 1932. That year, autocratic, hard-driving Willoughby M. McCormick, founder of the business, left it to his nephew Charlie. The new boss looked his 43-year-old gift horse squarely in the teeth and found it shaky financially, low in morale, wary of initiative...
Because in writing Henry V Shakespeare was much hampered by the limitations of his stage, there was heavy work for the one-man Chorus, who, in persuasive and beautiful verbal movies, stirred his audience to imagine scenes and movement which the bare and static Elizabethan stage could not provide...
Maurice Chevalier, still singing in a slanted hat, sharp tux and cocked eyebrow, and still France's No. 1 music-hall darling, set himself for a round-the-hemisphere tour in a one-man show. The greying song-&-dance man would tour the Alps first, then go to Buenos Aires and Rio, then hop to Canada. Then, if his plans panned out, he would do a coast-to-coast tour...
This week Tom Benton showed up in Chicago again-with a one-man exhibition which he described as a "plain bid for Chicago's approval." The country boy had not grown much bigger with the years, but he was twice as cocky...