Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Pacific, Broadway's biggest current moneymaker, was taking in some $7,000 a night last week. But, its producers estimated, ticket scalpers were making $18,000 a night on the same show. Indignantly, Broadway's leading angel, Howard S. Cullman, totted things up: in a year, he figured, South Pacific will take in $3,000,000 while its parasites rake in $8,000,000. The public goes on paying for both...
...scrolls in the U.S. also include the complete Book of Isaiah, a commentary on the Book of Habbakuk, and a manual of discipline for a minor Jewish sect. Scholars predict that complete analysis and translation of the scrolls will take many years. In order that experts all over the world may take part in this interpretive work, detailed photographs of the ancient scrolls so far unrolled have been made available by the American School of Oriental Studies...
Says the boss, who takes on jobs for as little as $500 or as much as $200,000: "If you want me to do a big thing like a tractor-there are so many obvious things you could do to make it better-looking that I would take it for very little. But if you want me to redesign a sewing needle, I'd charge $100,000. After all, how can you improve a needle? It's like the perfect functional shape...
...tentative designs Loewy pulled a curve here, a hood there, a fender sweep yonder, then "mocked up" about a dozen experimental models in clay, one-quarter size, and worked on them. Says Studebaker's President Harold S. Vance: "I have seen Loewy shake his head in disapproval, then take out a knife and with one sweep correct the clay model to perfection...
...Some Southern cities, through their police departments, also ban films that take a sympathetic view of Negroes. Recent example: Lost Boundaries, banned in Memphis and Atlanta...