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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Dan Patch (W. R. Frank; United Artists) is a sentimental, sway-backed horse opera about a champion pacer of the turn of the century, and the Hoosier hayseeds who bred and trained him. On the track Dan cuts a handsome and convincing figure, but the scriptwriter did him wrong by stuffing his feed bag.full of low grade Hollywood corn. Sample: Dan shows up outside the bedroom window of his dying master (Henry Hull) looking as if he were prepared to read the burial service. Equally lugubrious are Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell and Ruth Warrick, all of whom...
...State Department's Near East desk, talked over old times with the New York Times's Bertram Hulen (veteran of 23 years on the State Department beat), TIME'S Jack Werkley, Business Week's Thomas Falco, WOR's Pulitzer-prizewinning H. R. Knickerbocker...
From his field headquarters in Denver Jim R. Button was deploying his forces last week like a general in pursuit of a highly mobile enemy. The enemy: billions of grasshoppers threatening U.S farm crops with devastation. Worst danger spots: large areas of Wyoming and Montana, with trouble building up in Arizona...
When Eversharp, Inc.'s stockholders walked into the Chicago headquarters for their annual meeting last week, they felt that something important was out of place. Something was. It was Eversharp's ebullient ex-chairman, Martin Straus. In place of Straus, thick-jowled R. Howard Webster of Montreal, Straus's sworn enemy, was running things. Straus had lost control of the company which, in seven meteoric years, had risen, with the help of razzle-dazzle advertising ("the $64 question"), from a $12,078 deficit to peak sales (1946) of $46 million and a $4.2 million...
...November 1946, Straus had bought control of the Schick injector razor, looking for a cushion against hard times. He got a cushion all right (the razor division helped Eversharp show a $1.2 million profit last year), but there was a big pin in it. The pin was R. Howard Webster. To get the razor company, Straus had to take Webster, a big Schick stockholder, into Eversharp as a director. That was the beginning of Straus...