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...entire history the bank has had only six presidents. This week President James E. Gowen upped himself to board chairman and Girard got its seventh president. He was no banker. But Geoffrey S. Smith, 47, whom friends describe as a "conservative tweed man," had just the blend of solidity, acumen and polish that Girard liked...
...sure to worm its way into the shelves (or secret drawers) of many a home, because it caters to the social yearnings of all classes-from the sportsman who needs to know what kind of mourning is appropriate to driven-bird shooting (a black arm band on a tweed coat) to the unfortunate who still needs to be told that "oil is mispronounced 'erl.' " Some of it is what the whole book imagines itself to be: plain common sense and practical advice. But there is also a great deal of pedantic nonsense whose prissiness would drive a climbing...
Firemen said damage was principally in the Harris tweed section of the shop, but declined to estimate the extent of loss or speculate over the origin of the blaze...
...Central Park (Universal-International) is the story of Boss Tweed in a Currier & Ives setting. A colleen (Deanna Durbin), just off the boat from Ireland, flirts with a whiz-bang muckraker (Dick Haymes) from the New York Times. Her illiterate father, in all innocence, fattens zoo pheasants for the table of sybaritic...
...Boss Tweed (Vincent Price). When Rake Tweed entices Deanna down to an intimate supper, papa tags along and spoils everything. It all came right in the end; and that is why, today, we have PM, democracy, and the 10? subway fare...