Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curse of coyness. Hilarious is the scene with the ice cream cones, which starts when Swanson spies a child who is crying because he has spilled his cone on the sidewalk. Hilarious are the window breaking scenes, and the scenes in which Swanson tries to live up to the rumor that there is a dash of insanity in her family. It is too bad that a picture which is really good entertainment should suffer from sloppy photography (e.g. the shot of Swanson drying herself in a towel robe after a shower, in which the spectator is allowed to discover that...
Having sold their nickel weekly Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden, Publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson last week negotiated the sale of the factory which made Liberty's cheap paper at Tonawanda, N. Y., to International Paper & Power Co. for $4,000,000. But the rumor that they would retire further from the publishing business, that they would sell their Chicago Tribune to William Wrigley Jr., Albert Davis Lasker et al. (TIME, April 13) had by last week lost most of its steam. First direct quotation of Publisher McCormick on the subject appeared in the form of a note...
Ever since Rumor spread the word that the morning departure was to be made at the unprecedentedly early hour of 7.45 o'clock, local dopesters have been put to it to explain why the leaders of learning should content themselves with 15 minutes of House breakfast in the could grey dawn to reach the field of a battle scheduled on the Elis' Jayvee diamond, for the tardy hour of 3.30 o'clock. Nor have the few statement vouchsafed by officials gone far to clarify the situation...
...Author. Serious, conscientious Erich Maria Remarque worked hard on The Road Back, was dissatisfied with the ending and finally decided to change it, land on account of his lungs. Walter Winchell, Manhattan colyumist (Daily Mirror), did not improve his reputation for veracity when he helped circulate the rumor that Remarque's real name is Kramer (Remarque spelled backwards). Mobilized at 18, Remarque was repeatedly wounded on the Western Front. The War, which maimed his hand, put an end to his ambition to become a pianist. He does not regard himself as a literary man, says both his books...
Surprise? Asked whether or not Pynchon's failure was a surprise, last week Wall Streeters were hard put for an answer. As long ago as last September when tides of rumor were at a height, many things were said about the condition of Pynchon & Co. Widely known was the fact that Chase National Bank, perhaps assisted by another institution, had seen the firm through heavy trouble with loans estimated at from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Early last week the old rumor again leapt forth. Heavy selling came into those securities of which Pynchon...