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...small Detroit hotel room, one afternoon last week, velvet-voiced, 66-year-old Norman Selby, a Ford-plant thrift-garden supervisor, pensively fingered a bottle of sleeping pills. Through his mind there flashed a hodge-podge of recollections...
Behind the patched and faded fed velvet curtain of Philadelphia's elegant Academy of Music (built in 1857 and famed for its acoustics) lives a small brown bat. During Metropolitan Opera visits to the Academy, the bat nearly flew into the broad mouth of Tenor Beniamino Gigli; once it flew rings around Basso Feodor Chaliapin. Last week, by lying low, the bat muffed a punnish chance-a performance of Johann Strauss's bubbling, rollicking The Bat (Die Fledermaus), by the best troupe Philadelphia has had in years...
...foreign operations: in spite of its foreign grief the company pocketed $3,192,580 in foreign dividends (mostly pre-war). Thus Chairman Reed's scaling down of European assets was an exemplary piece of conservatism. Hereafter what Radiator recovers from its European investments will be mostly velvet...
Tops in both prestige and sales from 1883 to 1939 was the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, which auctioned over $160,000,000 worth of art. Every big U. S. art fancier knew its dignified building on Manhattan's esthetic 57th Street, its shrewdly-lit, velvet-draped auction stage. But spooks lurked behind that arras. Last summer the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries folded up for nonpayment of debts (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week its two partners gave Manhattan its best mystery story since Drug Dealer Frank Donald Coster (TIME. Dec. 19, 1938, et seq.). Tabloids christened...
...year ending Oct. 31). During the year his company's sales dropped 8%, rather a good record since the sales of farm implements generally fell 10 to 15%. While late in 1939 U. S. business volume increased so that many companies passed the point where the velvet begins, Minneapolis-Moline's decline for the year took it back below that point. Its 8% drop in business was accompanied by a 91% drop in profits...