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Died. Frank Borzage, 67, pioneer movie director, winner of Hollywood's first Academy Award for Seventh Heaven in 1927, and again in 1931 for Bad Girl; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Your cover story on the market, however good its "gross message," missed one major point: a company pioneering new fields, based on good new ideas and unique people, is worth "more than average." Look at the list of major corporations in existence in 1900 -how many still exist today? Similarly, to be sure, many "glamor" companies being founded today will not survive the next few decades. However, for the survivors, $1 invested today will be worth more than $1 invested in a slower-growing, "established" company, even after speculative excesses have been subtracted. Itek intends...
...copies every Sunday; every petty crook in town seemed anxious to make a killing by running the contraband across the Mississippi into Minneapolis. In Minneapolis itself, Mrs. Florence Kennan's butcher, as a favor to a good customer, slipped her a hot copy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press-wrapped to resemble a leg of lamb. Two people fainted in the crush of eager newspaper buyers around a downtown Minneapolis newsstand. Hyman P. Shinder's kiosk, the biggest in town, collected a crowd each Sunday dawn, even though Shinder's consignment of papers from Minneapolis' twin...
...year locusts any good to anybody? Dr. Leland Howard, a pioneer entomologist, decided in 1885 that they might be good to eat. His report: when broiled they are flabby-nothing but skin; most palatable method is to fry them in batter, when they remind one of shrimps...
Died. Northam Warren Sr., 83, pioneer U.S. cosmetics manufacturer, a Baptist preacher's son who first introduced liquid nail polish to the U.S. in 1916; of a heart ailment; in Stamford, Conn...