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Once a boiler-stoker in a greenhouse, Mr. Kent received his business training as a salesman for American Druggists' Syndicate. He rose rapidly, became assistant to the president. After a short experience with Vitagraph Co. he helped liquidate General Film, indicted under the Sherman Act, and was soon talking business with Famous Players' Adolph Zukor. Tall Mr. Kent's first Paramount job was in the sales department. He was promoted to be district manager, with offices in Kansas City. His next change was a call to Manhattan where he was made first sales manager, then general manager...
...Author. James Hanley, latest White Hope of the intelligentsia, was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the same age as his hero. 13. In 1916 he joined the army, returning to the sea after the War. Onetime stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, post man. Author Hanley knows the proletariat of which he writes. His writing induces nausea in some readers?Hugh Walpole leading the hue & cry with a public shriek of horror?but causes in others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream...
Last week Inquisitor Seabury put Builder Fred F. French on the stand. Mr. French, Brooklyn-born, was once a Princeton student, then successively a cow hand, stoker, timekeeper when the Hippodrome Theatre was erected. He is responsible for the Tudor City residential de-velopment on Manhattan's East Side. When he wanted to erect a Fifth Avenue office building of dimensions which needed an "interpretation" from the Board of Standards & Appeals in 1926, Builder French was guided to the Olvany firm...
...After we docked at Leningrad," confessed a penitent stoker from the freighter Asta, "there was a big meeting. All us German sailors in town came. A Russian got up and explained a lot of things. So we all voted to strike...
Since the Witch of Endor, rare are the artists who have raised a proper ghost. Bram Stoker raised one (Dracula]; Algernon Blackwood one (The Wendigo); Walter de la Mare, a few (The Return, On the Edge, TIME, Feb. 23): M. R. James several. Ghost-story addicts will welcome this collection of his four spooky books (Ghost Stories of An Antiquary, Afore Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, A Warning to the Curious...