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Woody went straight to West Point's football coach, Lieut. Colonel Earl Blaik, and found a sympathetic ear. After boning, he passed his qualifying exams with 100 in math. Colonel Blaik found a Georgia Congressman who was willing to swap Woody's Congressman a current vacancy for one the following year. By this time it was the eve of Woody's 22nd birthday, when he would become too old for West Point entry. There was still no official notice of his appointment. Gambling on the chance that it had been sent direct to West Point, Woody...
Last week Tigrett was in Manhattan dickering with the bondholders' protective committee of the Alton. He got the committee to agree to swap $45 million of Alton 35, due in 1949, for $23 million of G.M. & 0. 4% income bonds, and 328,787 shares of common stock...
...formula of the two couples who swap mates, Brook is ably assisted by Beatrice Lillie, one of Britain's top comediennes. Heading a list of superlative supporting characters, Miss Lillie is at her best repulsing the amorous attempts of her weak-kneed suitor...
This cultural promotion is neatly capsuled in informal charm. Three or four critics swap frank opinions about a current bestseller, while the author sits by and takes it. Then the author gets a chance to talk back. Participants in last week's recordings: the New York Herald Tribune's Lewis Gannett, Story magazine's Whit Burnett, American Magazine's John K. M. McCaffery (who acts as m.c.) and Author Richard Wright (Black Boy -TIME, March...
...returned to Hollywood and to immediate offers from Warner, Lester Cowan, M.G.M. and David 0. Selznick. But Selznick alone met her terms-willing as she was to swap careers at a discount. He agreed to pay her $250 a week for the first six months, $350 (her present salary) for the second, plus an expense account which includes her clothes, a titanic item,* and everything else that has anything remotely to do with business...