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...thorough rehash of the ICC plan issued three years ago. First & foremost it allows for the snappy rise in MOP earnings since 1938, would use cash to pay off more than $50,000,000 top-ranking bonds (the ICC plan would distribute $2,700,000 cash). This fat payoff permits the new plan to give a much better deal to junior security holders and at the same time stay within the framework erected by ICC-a 17% cut in capitalization to $560,000,000, a 40% slash in all interest charges to about $15,000,000 annually. Other details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hope in MOP | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

When the theater's Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne took to the air last week, the result was added proof that radio acting is a specialized art, that great ability on the stage is no guarantee of a payoff before the microphone. For Russian War Relief (WOR-Mutual) and The Cavalcade of America (NBC) respectively the lusty pair played a Russian metalworker & wife, a Bethlehem innkeeper & wife. These roles were not designed to exploit the Lunts' facility with bang and banter. Further, they were not favored by WOR-Mutual's jerky dramatization of the life and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Lunts v. The Air | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

Chief threat in the team that ranges from ten to 11 years and weighs from 70 to 110 pounds, is tailback Freddie Rhinelander from Jamaica Plain, who, according to Duble, runs, kicks, and teams up with Jeff Coolidge in a payoff passing attack. These two, with blocking back Ned Bliss, have contrived to roll up 89-0 and 18-6 scores in their first two tilts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '46 Coach Leads Team To Undefeated Season | 11/17/1942 | See Source »

...CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Another brisk, shrewdly plotted and forthrightly told Perry Mason story, in which the adroit lawyer-sleuth cooperates with an intelligent and wary police lieutenant. Mason's analysis of feline antics supplies the payoff clue to an elusive killer and a pair of carefully contrived murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Crime | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...payoff score was registered when Charles Burlington pulled down a long pass from Lester Katz and raced across the goal line. The Bunnies swept the other end of the twin bill as their Freshmen beat the Dunster Junior squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVERETT DEFEATS DUNSTER GRIDDERS | 9/9/1942 | See Source »

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