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...holding up fairly well, the profit margin was growing narrower and narrower. In 1937, beating the bushes with such radio headliners as Rudy Vallée (for Fleischmann's Yeast and Royal Gelatin Desserts), wooden Charlie McCarthy (for Chase & Sanborn Dated Coffee), "One Man's Family" (for Tender Leaf Tea), Standard Brands ran up record net sales of $122,517,121. But even in briefly booming 1937, Standard Brands' net profit was only 73? a share compared with 1930's $1.22. And Mrs. O'Brien's dividend income (from 300,000 shares of common...
...last week came a bulky grey German vessel of some 12,000 tons. She looked like a merchantman: some said she flew the Nazi naval flag; at any rate from her name, Altmark, anyone at all conversant with World War II must have known that she was the armed tender for the late raider Admiral Graf Spee, a ship sought .furiously by the British Navy because she was reported to ' carry, in verminous prison quarters below decks, between 300 and 400 British seamen taken from the Spee'?, seven sunken victims (TIME...
...Time of Your Life. William Saroyan's tender, boozy picture of life in a waterfront honky-tonk (TIME...
Variously called Lama Tanchu, or Lama Dhondup, or Ehrlingh ("Divine Child"), the new Dalai Lama last fortnight took his official name: Jampel Ngag-Wang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyamtso, deriving from the names of earlier Dalai Lamas and meaning "Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific...
Once outside, Vag found envelopes were a nickel extra at the far end of the aforementioned counter. The prospect of another struggle with the tender-hearted seemed completely appalling, and yet it was certain that Uncle Sam would not deliver his heartfelt sentiments in their present undressed condition. Driven to desperation by the necessity to express the innermost feelings of his soul, Vag ran to the nearest postoffice and inscribed his touching message on a penny postcard: "Give, Baby, this is leap year...