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...purlieus of brokerage houses last week an alert ear might have heard these things whispered: 1) Irving Trust Co. would shortly absorb $191,000,000-in-deposits Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co.; 2) Chatham Phenix was heavily involved in frozen real estate loans; 3) Chatham Phenix had substantial losses through an investment in Empire State Building; 4) The assets of Chatham Phenix were depleted through the sale of Chatham Phenix Allied Corp., an investment trust sponsored by the bank's securities affiliate (TIME...
Notoriously miserable has been the record of investment trusts as a group. Notably excellent has been the record of one trust: Atlas Utilities Corp. Last week Atlas, still little known beyond the purlieus of Wall Street, acquired control of two well known investment trusts, and with them, management contracts...
...Said It. In the academic purlieus of Chanin's 46th Street Theatre, where Tait University of Good News was founded three years ago, last week another institution of learning was born. It was Kenton College, and to it flocked winsome Mary Lawlor, Funnyman Lou Holtz and the rest of the broad-trousered, brief-skirted cast of You Said It. In singing, dancing, funmaking, there was little to choose between Kenton and Tait...
...another tutoring school has tentatively reared its head in the purlieus of Cambridge Town. Its site, opposite Arthur's and the Lampoon, has advantages. When the Tunisian has become too grant for those who have shunned drinking deep they may find quick relief in gastronomic delights, or, by going up stairs, in stilled laughter. The inauguration of this institution is just another phase of the college hegira from the sanctuary of the Yard to the more rarified atmosphere of the riverbank...
Ladies All. Place a wealthy wench-conscious young bachelor in an isolated studio in the purlieus of Westport, Conn. Put within grasping distance a plump French maid, an unsatisfied wife, and a beauteous blonde sculptress whom he has long and vainly loved. Have one of the three pay an incognito midnight visit to his chamber. Next morning have each vehemently deny, then reluctantly admit, his charge. The result: pleasant theatrical fare for a summer evening. Ladies All is a doctored U. S. version of Rumanian Prince Antoine Bibesco's Who. Musicomedian Walter Woolf, in his debut as a legitimate...