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...demise in Philadelphia newspaperdom last week underscored a harsh truism: U.S. magazine publishers have failed notoriously to publish successful newspapers. The long-sick Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger was ordered liquidated by a Federal District Court. With it disappears the last remnant of the would-be newspaper empire started 29 years ago by the late, great Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, genius of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, etc. His empire-building had cost $42,000,000 and he had bought, started or swallowed eight newspapers with a combined peak circulation of 848,000. But, like Frank Munsey and Bernarr Macfadden...
...past three years the Dramatic Club, sole remaining remnant of the one-time famous Harvard drama department, has produced plenty of flop shows. The officers deserted their policy of trying out experiments for one of attracting the public with lighter, frothier material than Auden, Isherwood, and T, S. Eliot. Unfortunately, the compromise policy has fallen flat and the H. D. C. has lost the prestige of its old daring innovations without gaining any compensatory lucre at the box-office...
...Senior will testify, was looped off at the shoulder. The University fired James Durnell and Donald Moyer, the latter an A-1 contact man who is working at Cornell this year as Director of Personell with wider powers than most Harvard deans; left behind is a useless remnant-several files listing industrial representatives and job opportunities which at present languish in the Dean's Office, and an experienced secretary, working this year in the NYA office. This drastic amputation, which saved the University approximately $18,000 a year, was undertaken "for budgetary reasons" soon after the announcement...
...quit France for the North African command, wiry Septuagenarian Weygand has kept observers guessing. Repeatedly he has been accused of coolness to Vichy, repeatedly he has sounded off in ringing statements of loyalty. Three times the Germans have tried to force his removal from command of the most potent remnant of the once mighty armies of the French Republic...
...these were not likely to be the most immediate consequences of competitive bidding. The rule will denude the investment bankers of their remnant shreds of influence over utilities; but it will also make the big insurance and trust companies more formidable monopolists of the best security issues than ever. The bankers will become mere bone-fed finders of private placements. Since the insurance companies have already been put on the spot before TNEC for absorbing so huge a share of U.S. investment opportunities (TIME, March 10), SEC's new rule will doubtless hasten the day when insurance, too, will...