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...like a parade. On scaffolding before it stood a big, drooping man with a gloomy face and sad Mexican eyes: Diego Rivera, the world's foremost living fresco painter. A guard called to Rivera to come down from his scaffold. He laid down his big brushes and the tin kitchen plate he uses for a palette, climbed nimbly down the ladder. Mr. Robertson handed him an envelop. It held a check for $14,000, last payment on the $21,000 due Rivera for his work. It held too a letter telling him he was fired. Artist Rivera woodenly went...
...told him the way to do it was to write a book. He wrote a book of short stories in two weeks, paid to have it printed, waved it in producers' faces when asking for a job. He and Director Malcolm St. Clair managed famed Police Dog Rin Tin Tin. They got work with Warner Brothers by acting out their stories, taking turns impersonating Rin Tin Tin. Small, sharp-faced Zanuck quickly progressed to a successful series of boxing stories; in three years he was studio dictator. When Warner Brothers merged with First National, Darryl Zanuck was placed...
...commodity, however, held so much hope for any one man as tin did for Simon I. Patino. Starting a poor native of the frozen mountains of Bolivia, he has wangled himself power and untold millions out of the tin mines in the mountains. Today he lives in a gilded Parisian palace, envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Bolivia to France, with a daughter married to a Spanish marquis and a son married to a Bourbon princess, master in his own right of 15% of the world's tin resources. A rise of 4? a pound in tin, a rise...
Testified Mrs. McLaughlin: "There were tin cans, wagon wheels and other debris all around. As for the pigs, they looked very meagre-starved-looking. . . . They were coughing and seemed to have colds...
...goes bankrupt for $576,000,000, with its Mayor junketing in Paris, public apathy is at last aroused. At a property-owners' protest banquet, winged words fan the flames. "Poison'ly, Mister Tussmester and fellow goats, poison'ly, I'm getting tired eating all the tin kens our friends in City Hall has been feeding us the last few years. Even a goat becomes gradually tired from eating tin kens, tin kens, tin kens, tin kens." A riot destroys the City Hall, scares the politicians into adopting City Managership. They drop their differences and become...