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...Boltz was a full-fledged investment counselor. His N. A. I. F. balance sheet listed assets of $1,914,000. Word got around that he was a financial wizard. His friends in the Juristic Society gave him their money to invest and sent others to him. His church affiliations were helpful too; several ministers advised members of their flock to put their worldly goods in his care. All in all, he acquired over 160 clients, among them such distinguished old Philadelphia names as Biddle. Chew, Bullitt, Gest, Truitt, Pilling. During the parlous days of New Deals I and II they...
...those who expected the automobile industry's mass-production wizards to work overnight miracles were bound to be disappointed. Charles Sorensen is certainly such a wizard. Ford's great shops can make some of the machine tools which Pratt & Whitney has to get from outside suppliers. Ford foundries will produce alloys which P. &W. buys (from Aluminum Co. of America). Sorensen & colleagues took over Pratt &Whitney's production methods in the main, but have already worked out some speed-up tricks. Experienced P. & W. men are on the job in Detroit, both to teach and to learn...
Newest minstrel of Arthurian romance is bearded, falconry-loving T. H. White, onetime English schoolmaster. The Sword in the Stone (1938), a tale of young Arthur's education in the hands of the wizard Merlyn, was so brightly fanciful that Walt Disney purchased it to succeed Snow White, Pinocchio, etc. The Witch in the Wood (1939) was a more slapdash account of Arthur's early kingship. This week appears the best of the series: The Ill-Made Knight, a whimsical chronicle of Arthur's further attempts to found civilization by channeling Might, via the Round Table, into...
Dick Harlow spent a lot of time yesterday putting his boys through their forward passing paces in addition to the regular defensive measures against Penn plays. Harlow is a wizard in rigging up sound defenses for special kinds of attacks so his men will give a good account of themselves as long as they are fresh. But Penn's tremendous depth is one of the major worries for Harvard coaches these days...
Peter Quill is the joint creation of Bill Lee, late managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and radio Writer-Producer-Director Blair Walliser. Originally Quill was known as The Crimson Wizard, and in the beginning neither Lee nor Walliser was certain whether their man was a menace or a hero. Last fall it was decided he ought to be a stanch American, and ever since then Walliser has held him on the patriotic line...