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...Arthur Rubloff of Chicago got a present from her husband last week: A $1,500 beaver coat. Art Rubloff, ex-shoe-shine boy, now a top Chicago real-estate man, was feeling chipper. Said he: "I've done myself a nice fat deal." The "fat deal" was for a new $4,700,000 Greyhound bus terminal which will streamline the skyline of Chicago's Loop...
...approve a sale. "All big deals are one long series of headaches," he said last week. "I used stooges and dummies and anything I could think of. ... I scarcely even tell myself what I'm doing until I'm through." Rubloff, 39, quit grade school to shine shoes and peddle newspapers for a living, got into real estate in 1919 as an office boy. His only departure from the Alger script was in the lush '20s: "I made plenty of dough but I spent it-while the other boys were losing theirs in the stockmarket." When...
...Director Rouben Mamoulian substitutes spectacle and color for the story in Blood and Sand II. His film artfully goes from low to high key as it takes its color tone from the palettes of the Spanish masters: the somber browns of Murillo for the opening sequence; the shade and shine of Sorolla for the market scenes; El Greco's eerie greens in the chapel; Velasquez' black & white for the banquet; and the rich red & gold of Goya for the arena...
Young Darlan's school record at the Paris Lycee St. Louis was only average and his teachers there were astonished when he began to shine in his second year at the Ecole Navale (France's Annapolis). A connection has often been suggested between his luster and the fact that his sister had just married Capitaine de Vaisseau Keraudren, then Aide-de-Camp to the President of the Republic. At school Darlan's wild arm-waving while he talked earned him the nickname "The Bass Drummer," upon which he often capitalized by standing on a chair to exhibit...
...coming out from behind the very black clouds for the Varsity baseball team, but it remains to be seen whether it will pop right back in again, after a stay of only one game, or whether it is now out for good, and will shine with a bright Crimson hue for the rest of the campaign