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Riches to Rags. The son of a prosperous steamroller manufacturer, Perkins had an early lesson in business failure. After Rugby, Cambridge and a World War I stint in the Royal Engineers, he went to work for the family firm, rose to managing director. But the Depression flattened the steamroller business, and in 1932 the factory shut down. Perkins found himself out of a job, with a wife and four children to support...
...restless. Example: a man of 53 became impatient during a two-week stint of laboratory analysis, went to a quack who gave him "treatment" within the hour. "I got 'antsy.' You know, when you've got cancer, every minute counts...
...opening script (written by Hollywood's Charles Isaacs and Jack Elinson) took a fresh and inventive look at a great many stock situations. Culture-bound Gilbert turns out to be a better than adequate painter with an inclination to color bananas blue; he suffers amusingly through a stint at the opera (someone told him it was "Tristan -versus Isolde"), and brilliantly handles a pugnacious drunk at a nightclub. Allen Jenkins agonizes familiarly as the champ's trainer, and Phyllis Coates is eye-filling as a Park Avenue blonde...
...employees, he wants to find a team to help him "build a good foundation for the railroad." Try Research. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Perlman got his start in railroading as an engine-wiper before moving into the engineering end of the business. After a stint in the RFC's railroad division and at the Burlington, he joined the bankrupt...
...innings against Cleveland, Turley pitched a 4-hitter (striking out five) and won his third game of the young season, 2-1. Later, against the Boston Red Sox, Turley left the Boston batters gaping as he reared back and struck out eleven of them in an eight-inning stint (he was lifted for a pinch hitter) and won his fourth game of the year...