Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth year the Ice Follies had come to Broadway. The show was started on a shoestring by Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson (a pair of St. Paul skaters who first got into the business 13 years ago when they were hired to do a comic Bowery skit at a Manhattan hockey game) and Eddie's younger brother, Roy. In 1937, the Follies were as crude as a road company of East Lynne. Next year the little St. Paul troupe was more professional. Last year they were still better. This year their show was as polished as any Follies the late...
...London ice show. In London last winter a U. S. promoter saw them, hired them to do their stuff at Hollywood's Tropical Ice Garden. When the Tropical Ice Garden melted after four weeks, Frick & Frack got one job and another, finally found themselves in St. Paul's Skating Carnival. There Producers Shipstad & Johnson, who know a good comic when they see one, grabbed the boys from Basle-at $500 a week for 48 weeks of the year...
...name of a shy, German-born inventor who studied mechanical engineering at the technical schools of Stuttgart and Munich, in 1923 emigrated to the U. S., found work as a truck driver's assistant, then as a mechanic for Pioneer Instrument Co., a Bendix subsidiary. By 1928 Paul Kollsman had accumulated $500 and started Kollsman Instrument...
...make most of the magnetic compasses, engine gauges, accelerometers, etc.. Kollsman's pet patented altimeter soon copped nearly all of the altimeter market. He made many another fine dashboard instrument besides. Wall Street houses heard of him, urged that he issue stock to finance expansion. Shy Bachelor Paul Kollsman declined, continued to pile earnings back into the company...
Treasurer will be Amory Parker '41, in place of Paul W. Cherington '40; Rudson R. Ansley '42, was elected Pegasus. Robert J. Bottomly, Jr. '41 is business Manager, Lousdale F. Stowell '41 is Advertising Manager and Richard E. Johnson '42 Circulation Manager...