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Word: osborne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serial, The Gay Banditti, The Young in Heart never permits its audience much doubt about how the lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose morning diversion is watching excavations, discussing Capital and Labor while they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...volume there is less discussion of sex and more of economics, politics, sociology, religion, psychiatry. More serious, it is less unified in tone, as a whole more searching, better documented, more thoughtful. The unabashed praise of advertising, written by Roy S. Durstine, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, is at odds with the entire book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: State of the Nation | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...This week the State Department made public a list of 106 registrants, mostly innocuous advertising and publicity agents hired for legitimate trade boosting. Examples: Batten, Barton, Durstine, & Osborn (Dunlop Tires), J. Walter Thompson (Guinness Stout), branch offices of European steamship lines. A Manhattan public relations specialist, Hamilton Wright, reported drawing $2,000 a month from Egypt, $1,000 from Czechoslovakia, $1,250 from Italy (some of his advertising had been placed through a firm in which Presidential Son Elliott had been a partner). Rev. Dr. Alexander Cairns of Bloomfield, N. J. deposed that in seven months he had delivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Taxes, Spies & Frankfurters | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Tremendous hit on Broadway last season was Paul Osborn's On Borrowed Time, now in its ninth and final month there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Surer F | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...college yearbook for $2,000, promptly resold the space for $7,000. In 1930, when he was down to the last $9 of this fat profit, he arrived in Manhattan to hunt a job. Though modest, soft-spoken Douglas Leigh hoped to work for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string of Depression salary cuts, he quit the job in 1933, sold his old Ford for $150 and used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Spectacular | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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