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...years ago, the Department of Justice filed an anti-trust suit against ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers). Bogged down until last December, the case warmed up when trust-busting Thurman Arnold turned it over to plump, blond Victor Waters, his able assistant. Since then the Department has been busy bolstering its contention that ASCAP is a monopoly. Thread of the Government argument: Since ASCAP insists that clients contract for all ASCAP tunes or none, any individual composer who is a member of ASCAP is deprived of potential profits when ASCAP terms are refused. "The profit from a song...
When he began to croon, Lewis Reid of the Morris agency asked Character Actor Irving Kaufman to assume the role. Plump, pink-faced, freckled, balding, Kaufman, who as a small boy once played a spurious Russian midget in vaudeville, has portrayed Lazy Dan for Old English Floor Wax, Happy Jim Parsons for Air Conditioning Training Corp., Johnny Prentiss for Gruen Watch Co. He boasts that he has made more phonograph records than any other singer, having worked for 22 companies under ten different names. On the radio he has played as many as twelve characters in one sketch. But until...
Displaying a fresh nutbrown beard, plump, exuberant Author Christopher Morley played Pandarus, a wily, two-timing businessman of Troy, in the Roslyn, L. I. production of his play, The Trojan Horse. All authors (notably Chaucer and Shakespeare) who wrote about Troilus and Cressida, explained Playwright Morley, wore beards...
...President General Manuel Avila Camacho, who wants to be friends with the Church, to commute her term. As her fellow prisoners waved tearful farewells and the Mexican press broke into congratulatory headlines, Seiiora Castro Balda walked out through the prison gates. A vindicated martyr, at 49 more bloomingly plump than ever, she drove with her husband to the Villa Madero, placed a grateful bouquet at the foot of the Virgin of Guadalupe...
...late Dr. Leta Stetter Hollingworth, a plump, motherly professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College, all her life deplored mankind's inhumanity to geniuses. Eighteen years ago, as an experiment, she picked 50 of the brightest children (I. Q. 130 to 200)* in New York City, started two special classes for them at Public School 165, near Columbia. Like Stanford University's Professor Lewis M. Terman (TIME, Oct. 14), who for 18 years has followed the careers of 1,300 gifted Californians, Dr. Hollingworth watched her "geniuses" as they grew...