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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest gross movie earnings on record are The Singing Fool ($5,250,000), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ($4,500,000), Ben Hur ($4,000,000). Last week it became apparent that Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with U.S. receipts so far of nearly $4,000,000, British receipts estimated at $1,250,000, will presently set a new record of about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Items | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Only four lettermen return this year: Captain Dud Talbot, Walt Kernan, Bob Stevens, and Vince Richards. One of the key positions left vacant is the stroke position held down by Spike Chace last year. Bill Rowe, pacesetter for the 1938 Jayvees is a likely candidate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY EIGHTS WORK ON FORM DURING FALL | 10/14/1938 | See Source »

...other hand, the Bunnies have done poorly in recent scrimmages, largely due to poor attendance at practices. Also, injuries have taken their toll of Rabbit regulars, with 200-pound Walt Bass and quarterback Ollie Foote sidelined with minor bumps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RABBIT-DEACON CLASH TOPS HOUSE GRID BILL | 10/13/1938 | See Source »

This week, ex-Friend Pegler's book, The Dissenting Opinions of Mister Westbrook Pegler, was published.* Of its 85 reprints of his daily diatribes, only two were written without his scalpel. One is an ecstatic appreciation of Walt Disney. The other, a testimonial to telegraph operators, amazed even its author. "I am not very good at singing praises," he concludes, "having very little practice, and I hardly know what has prompted me to this extraordinary outburst of sweetness toward my fellow man. Just call it a change of pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mister Pegler | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Lane-Wells Co., 208,006 shares of common stock at $15.25 a share. Back in Depression I, two middle-aged engineers named Bill Lane and Walt Wells, down to their last $500, perfected a gun with which they could shoot through the steel-&-cement well-casing of dry or abandoned oil wells at levels thought to be oil-bearing. Since then they have turned a pretty penny ($590,814 net in 1937, $310,458 to June 1938). Of last week's issue, floated to pay off loans and finance expansion, 58,006 shares were new securities, 150,000 were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Issues | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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