Word: succession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fatiguing than the old standard keyboard designed in 1868 (see cut). But so far only 1,000 machines with the Dvorak keyboard (available from most typewriter manufacturers) have been sold. Dr. Dvorak had about despaired of teaching old typists new tricks when last week University of Chicago reported remarkable success in teaching the Dvorak system to children...
...Oklahoma Kid (Warner Bros.). Westerns have always been a Hollywood staple. Lately, partly because of the success of Gene Autry and the Hopalong Cassidy series, partly because there is no other type of picture calculated to give so little offense to foreign countries, they have enjoyed a spectacular renaissance. Minor producers who make low-budget Westerns in dozen lots are turning out more than ever. Major producers, inclined to disdain Westerns for the past few years, have not only resumed making them but promoted them to high production budgets...
Last week, still fecund at 87, this corporate oldster proudly brought forth an offspring: a new car, the Studebaker Champion, frankly designed to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth in the low-price field. Other makers have tried for ten years to crash this field without success, and Studebaker itself has had two previous cracks at it with the Erskine and the Rockne...
John Phillips Marquand, 45, is a tall, blue-eyed New Englander, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, who last year won literary as well as financial success with his best-selling novel, The Late George Apley...
...manuscript of his first book, The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922) was lost from a Manhattan taxi; recovered weeks later, it made him a success. The next ten years he lived in Boston, becoming, he says, "something of an Apley himself." Now married to Adelaide Ferry Hooker (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3d), he spends his winters in a swanky Manhattan duplex apartment, his summers on an island farm near Newburyport...