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This mail-order bookkeeping service was the brain child of Jack Hession, 36, who learned his bookkeeping as a federal bank examiner, got his financial backing through his war job as a drill-press operator in Consolidated-Vultee's San Diego plant. On the next machine was Charles Silverman, who had always made money fast (he sold his Boston-New York bus line in 1929 for a fat price), but had not hung...
Magna cum Laude: Richard Allan Silverman (Physics...
...Elihu O. Silverman '49--Franny Meyers...
Goofy? Hep. One day in 1933 Silverman called Abel Green up to the dais, told him: "Abel, you sit here." That made Green editor. Silverman died that year, left the business to son Sid, now an ailing absentee...
Editor Green broke in on Variety as an 18-year-old collegian. Today, like all the muggs, he lives partly in a nostalgic past, haunted by Silverman's wise-guy gentleness, his scoops, his Hispano-Suizas. Variety labors to be in the know about the future of television and 16-mm.-film theaters, so that if radio or the movies go the way of vaudeville, it will still be the journalistic handmaiden of entertainment...