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...decade of excellent government. Atkinson was replaced by John J. Curry, who ... was at that time considered to be more receptive to the views of Crane and DeGuglielmo than was his ...predecessor. It should be emphasized that the dismissal of Atkinson brought forth protests from men like W. Donnison Swan and the founder of the CCA, George L. McLaughlin...
...innumerable parodies are triumphs, too, all of them sketched with an ironic hand. Driving along the highway, Charlie contemplates some billboards. "A pretty girl pauses at the peak of her swan dive. . . After you pass, presumably she finishes, . . . slipping soundlessly in the frosty glass of beer beneath her." This is the pace, never strained, which Goodman maintains throughout the book...
...Boston. After his rise from general manager and treasurer, quiet, publicity-shy Countway raised sales from less than $1,000,000 in 1913 to $250 million in 1944. He invented B.O. during a golf game to boost his product, Lifebuoy; presided over the debuts of Lux Toilet Soap, Rinso, Swan and Spry; in 1939 received the highest salary with bonuses ($469,713) outside Hollywood...
...been in ever since. Last week, back in the U.S. for the fourth time, it was greeted by New Yorkers as an old friend. Indeed, it had not changed. Along with its 48 tons of imposing scenery and costumes, it brought a repertory that included a familiar full-length Swan Lake, a new production of Coppelia, a restaging of Fokine's Firebird; all these are ballets reaching to a wide public that cares less for pirouettes than for the pageantry of a world peopled by kings and queens, wicked magicians and good fairies in butterfly-drawn coaches...
...Spent a day fishing for trout at the Pine, Colo, ranch of Bal Swan, a Denver friend, and cooked his catch over an open fire...