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...Stunted Growth. Slichter maintained that corporate profits should be even higher. The only way to tell whether profits are excessive, he held, is "the community's [need] for expanded output and productive capacity." That need Slichter assessed at $70 billion "at present prices." To cut corporate profits now, he implied, would stunt the country's economic growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Explc losive Question | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Running as a ticket, Edmond Gong and Ernest Grabelsky of "Grabelsky today and Gong tomorrow" fame asked one and all to look at "a stunt" which transpires today opposite Widener Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neither Owls, Spies, Jazz, Nor Freshman Smokers . . . | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

From the moment Barry Fitzgerald enlists an unemployed Hollywood stunt man to impersonate the crazy and deceased scion of the Wealthy Tatlock family, "Miss Tatlock's Millions" rockets its imaginative and hugely funny way through acres of slapstick to a wet and happy ending in the Hawaiian breakers...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

John Lund, as the stunt man who pretends to have lost his mind, manages to do a really excellent comedy job with only two (2) extraordinary expressions. The scene in which he casually ignites the living room curtains with someone's cigarette lighter is typical of "Miss Tatlock's Millions...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

...years ago, Charlie Hudder led a Crimson aquatic squad to its most recent undefeated season. This winter, Captain Jerry Gorman may pull off the same stunt. Backed by all of last year's team except Larry Miner and Hank Arthur in the 440 and Milt Busby in the 100-yd. freestyle, his squad may hit clear water all season...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Varsity Swimmers, Stronger than Ever, Striving for Perfect Season | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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