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...Thompson. "He is at work now completing the organization, gathering assistants together." Some 15 local radio stations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have already been signed up. Mainspring of the Insull chain is Ota Gygi, one-time court violinist to Spain's Alfonso XIII and promoter of Ed Wynn's defunct Amalgamated Broadcasting Co. According to Lawyer Thompson, President Insull "hasn't got a dollar in the company; he didn't have a dollar to put in." One sure sign of broadening popular interest in stockmarket speculation is booming activity in so-called "penny stocks," which...
...Philo Higley & Philip Dunning; Philip Dunning, producer) is a fragile, Tarkingtonian tale of the pangs of childhood, in which are to be seen the growing or just-grown offspring of some notable stage folk. The cast includes the late William Hodge's daughter Martha, Ed Wynn's son Keenan, Author-Producer Dunning's daughter Virginia, Moffat Johnston's son Peter and John Drew Devereaux (grandson). Mr. Dunning has had a sign placed over the stage door: "Through These Portals Pass the Most Unspoiled Children in the World...
...American track and field team which will compete against the Italian track team in the Harvard Stadium on October 5. Associated with Farrell on the committee are Oscar Hedlund of Tech, Bart Sullivan of Holy Cross, Jack Ryder of Boston College, Fred Powers of Brown, Joseph Zeller of Northeastern, Wynn Marling of Boston University, and Bascom Bogle of Tufts...
...Editor Patterson to the usefulness of features-love advice, health and beauty hints, dress patterns, quilt patterns, child care, "How He Proposed," "Classroom Boners," "Embarrassing Moments," "Minute Mysteries," etc., etc. A single issue of the News contains about 30 of them. One such is the News' "eminent astrologer," Wynn (Sidney K. Bennett, who rates himself above the late Evangeline Adams), with daily advice such as: ". . . Be sure all your policies are for the good of others in addition to yourself and go ahead definitely toward a worthy goal! Avoid temper." Wynn also offered a free "personal horoscope...
Israel Edwin Leopold (Ed Wynn), president of Amalgamated Broadcasting System, organized last spring (after many postponements it began broadcasting in September), resigned his post. Announced reason: the discovery that he was a showman, not a businessman. Ota Gygi (Hun garian-born, onetime court violinist to Alfonso XIII) and Henry Goldman, businessman, who ran the company all summer while Mr. Wynn was in Hollywood, remain in charge. Ed Wynn became once more Texaco's broadcasting Fire Chief...