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...keep a reader flipping the pages while whipping up an intellectual storm. As he describes St. Petersburg in 1905; it is a city where icy water licks morose granite foundations. In prose that seems jittery at first, then calculated, Biely moves from a fashionable masquerade ball to the roach-ridden headquarters of the revolutionary gang; he works the weather and the face of the chaotic city into his story so firmly that at last they seem as important and ominous as any character in the book. When the bomb finally goes off, it is not so much an exclamation point...
Guterma resigned as chairman and president of F. L. Jacobs Co., the diversified holding company for his 13 (at last count) corporations. In as chairman went beefy (225 Ibs.) Hal Roach Jr., whose heavy interests in Hal Roach Studios and Mutual Broadcasting System, two Jacobs' affiliates, spurred him to purchase Guterma's stock interests in F. L. Jacobs. Said Roach: "I want to get what I believe is an inherently good company back in shape." But SEC insisted that the only way to achieve that was for F. L. Jacobs to be placed in the hands...
Nobody knew much about Alexander L. Guterma when he arrived in Wall Street five years ago. But he quickly showed himself such an expert in frenzied finance that he got control of F. L. Jacobs Co. (auto parts maker), Bon Ami Co. (scouring powder), Hal Roach Studios (Gale Storm Show), and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Last December Guterma's empire began to crumble...
...Roach Jr., 39, is president (his father, 66, is a director) of Hal Roach Studios, which now produces TV films. ¶ Gene Fowler Jr., 40, a film editor for nearly 20 years, last year directed I Was a Teenage Werewolf, is now producing and directing Paramount's I Married a Monster from Outer Space. Father Gene Fowler, 68, oldtime cirrhosis-be-damned newsman and biographer of the John Barrymore era, wrote Barrymore's biography (Good Night, Sweet Prince...
...Roach Quintet, Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Woody Herman Band...