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When tall, young (35), Latin-looking Frank Riggio quit American Tobacco Co. in 1937 to go in business for himself, cigaretmen thought he was crazy. His father, Vincent Riggio, was a vice president of American Tobacco, a favored member of its famous bonus system. And Frank had only $2,500 to back his own idea, which was to make the first popular blended King-size cigaret. By last week this had proved the best new idea in the tobacco business since the 10? brands. But its chief beneficiary was not Frank Riggio. It was American Tobacco...
...France, more sentimental than rational. It is based largely on Lafayette and legend. When the French Government of Marshal Pétain asked for an armistice most of these U. S. citizens felt that their sentimental faith had been misplaced. They reacted much as did Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay in a sonnet entitled The Old Men of Vichy, which ended...
...Yale men this was an event only less newsworthy than Professor William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps's retirement in 1933. It was also of interest to U. S. letters, to which Johnny Berdan gave Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benét, Thornton Wilder, Philip Barry, Walter Millis, many another notable author. Said Yale's President Charles Seymour, announcing "with regret" the professor's retirement: "The U. S. never produced a teacher more skillful in the field of English composition...
...will dwell on freedom of the press, Marc Connelly on freedom to teach, Orson Welles on freedom of assembly, Archibald MacLeish on freedom of speech, Paul Green on racial freedom. Filling out the broadcasts, now designed to run 13 weeks, will be scripts on freedom in general by Stephen Vincent Benet, Sherwood Anderson, George M. Cohan, Ernest Hemingway. Not entirely indiscriminate in its praise of the U. S., The Free Company will include in its broadcasts a bit of salutary criticism, with Founder Boyd offering as his stint the fight of a worker against capital's frauds and labor...
Trapped by flames in the upper stories of their Mt. Vernon, N. Y. house, Author Vincent Sheean, his wife (Diana Forbes-Robertson) and their two small children escaped being burned to death by leaping from windows. Author Sheean sprained an ankle, singed his hair; his wife suffered severe burns. The eleven-room house, which they leased from Sinclair Lewis and his wife, Dorothy Thompson, burned to a crisp...