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...opening of the store, Ed Carter threw a picnic for the 3,000 construction workers (and families) who had built it. Cried one delighted carpenter: "You've cinched 3,000 more customers for your store." Ed Carter hardly needed them. The first day the cash registers had rung up some $250,000; by week's end the take had risen to over...
...England, hocked his life insurance policy to make the British propaganda film The Lion Has Wings. It earned him a handsome profit and helped win him a knighthood. Korda, whose finances puzzle even his friends, then bailed out London Films, bought a controlling interest in British Lion, a top-rung distributing company, and issued ?1,000,000 in stock...
...Stan nearly two hours' playing time to learn that in spite of all his talents he was born to be a Geek. Stan is one of the most wholehearted and resourceful heels yet to leave a print on the U.S. screen. He climbs a ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries...
Wrote China's independent newspaper Ta Rung Pao: "The diplomatic attitude of the U.S. during the past two years has been permeated with arrogance and prejudice [and] contempt. . . ." The diplomatic attitude did not seem to have changed...
Countiess football teams cleat the sod of Soldiers' Field in the autumn--ranging from the inter-House players to the eleven that performs in the Stadium. Midway in the throng and little ballyhooed is Chief Boston's Jayvee squad made up of the men on the rung below the Varsity squad...