Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Producer David Oliver Selznick finally chose an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in his forthcoming $2,000,000 production of Gone With the Wind. She was Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), 25, 103-lb., green-eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...
Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History last week exhibited an extraordinary collection of objects: a stony meteorite with a charred black surface, about the size of a military hand grenade and weighing four pounds; part of a garage roof; the steel turret top of an automobile; an automobile cushion and floor board. These things were acquired for the Museum, at a price which its officials last week refused to reveal, by Ben Hur Wilson, amateur astronomer of Joliet, Ill. They originally belonged to Edward McCain, resident of the small Illinois mining town of Benld...
Officials of British Broadcasting Corp. spent hours telephoning everyone in the London telephone directory named Duck. Their hope: to discover someone with a son called Donald, to act the part of Donald Duck...
...banker) as usual took on the job of stating banking's case. Said he: "The fact that total commercial, industrial and agricultural loans have failed to rise in proportion to the great increase in demand deposits, has been cited by many as evidence of a reluctance on the part of the banking community to meet legitimate credit needs. ... In no true sense can credit be 'created' by banks. . . . There must be in the first place willing borrowers...
...particular. Plumping for responsible paid directors who would give real attention to their jobs, he urged U. S. corporations to go out and find men who would represent stockholders rather than management or banks. Although there might be plenty of practical problems in staffing directorates with paid "outsiders" (not part of the management) who had the time to know intimately the business they directed, Mr. Douglas said pertinently...