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Women Are Like That (Warner Bros.) dawdles drearily with the problem of getting Actor Pat O'Brien off a Scotch-&-soda diet and back into the advertising game. Droopy Actress Kay Francis models a few notable Orry-Kelly costumes, drops innumerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Board of Trade's member firms, Cargill is the only one to advocate such CEA limitation of speculation. With the strict Scotch Presbyterianism of its bosses, Cargill claims to regard a future contract as a contract to be fulfilled to the letter-which means actual delivery of grain. Most brokers regard a future merely as a hedging or speculative mechanism. Nor is this the only seed of contention between Cargill and the Board of Trade. Though Cargill has been in business since 1865 and has branches from Seattle to Albany, not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gentlemen's Disagreement | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Headed by captain Swisher Digit the team went thru a long drill which included scooping scotch and sodas out of highball glasses. Commenting on this, Coach Waters explained, "the scotch being heavier than water strengthens the finger muscles, and the depth of the glasses forces the boys to get their scoop strokes lower, an essential fundamental for high scoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finger Bowlers Open Season With Dunking in Puddle Bowl | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

...Brattle Hall yesterday afternoon, Oswald Twittleberg '38 hopped to a thrilling one-lap victory to win the all-collegiate hopscotch championship of New England. Because this is the second consecutive year that the Crimson hoppers have won the meet, a petition is being circulated demanding that hop-scotch be made a major sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWITTLEBERG HOPS TO VICTORY | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

When Mr. Hearst named him trustee last summer, Mr. Shearn called in the eminently respectable Manhattan law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, finally accepted its advice to scotch wild rumors by making the trusteeship known publicly. And in October, Trustee Shearn set up a supreme council of top-ranking Hearst executives: Thomas J. White, chief of the Hearst organization and liaison man with "The Chief"; Harry M. Bitner, general manager of Hearst newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of Hearst magazines; Joseph V. Connolly, head of features, wire services and radio; Martin F. Huberth, real-estate adviser; F. E. Hagelberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst Prunes | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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