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...Barretts of Wimpole Street), daughter of President Frank Gillmore of the Actors' Equity Association; and Robert F. Ross, 35, director (On Stage, The Distant Shore) ; in Manhattan. Acquitted. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives: of a charge of having violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law by withholding their films from three St. Louis cinemansions (TIME, Oct. 14); by a Federal court jury; in St. Louis. The case was regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing system. Died. Harold Ellicott Scarborough, 38, until lately European editorial...
...Government has long suspected the U. S. cinema industry of breaking or trying to break the Sherman Anti-Trust law. The U. S. cinema industry has long either controlled its desires or gratified them too adroitly to expose itself to punishment. Last week, in St. Louis, there began what may be the case which the Government has been looking for and the cinema industry avoiding. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives, were haled into court before Federal Judge George Moore, charged with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Maximum penalty...
Fanchon & Marco thereupon complained to the Department of Justice that, by withholding their films, Warner, Paramount and RKO were violating the Sherman Law. A Federal Grand Jury indicted the three companies. To cinemanufacturers, the St. Louis case last week looked like the spearhead of a Government attack on their film-selling system...
...Three sons of famed fathers-George Howard Earle IV, Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., Gustavus Franklin Swift Jr.- and some 1,000 other Harvard freshmen heard President James Bryant Conant advise: "Even during your college career you will find groups of propagandists outside the University ready to use you for their own purposes; you will find them to right and to left. . . , There are plenty of people who are willing and anxious to shout, to march, and to wave flags and banners. I do not feel that this type needs reinforcement from the student body...
...stealing its perfectly good president if that Baptist institution had not stolen Dr. Rainey from the presidency of small Franklin College four years ago. Twelve years before that Education had stolen him from professional baseball, a career on which he launched, immediately after his graduation from Austin College (Sherman, Tex.), as star pitcher of the Galveston team in the Texas League. A top-notch tennist, Dr. Rainey has often been seen wandering through the dormitories of whatever college he happened to head, looking for a student to trim. In his four years at Bucknell he has made news by scrambling...