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...cliff, several brutal fights and killings, and a long, tense stalking sequence, with rifles, in a pitch-dark canyon. It also has more than its quota of good performances, notably by Wally Cassell, Donald Crisp, Don DeFore, Lloyd Bridges. Best of all, it is finely set and photographed (by Allan O'Dea and Russell Harlan) and carefully directed (by Miss Lake's husband, Andre de Toth...
...stockmarket has drifted lower & lower, Wall Streeters have hoped that margin requirements would be relaxed. But last week, in the annual report of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, President Allan Sproul came out against lowering present 75% stock margins (75% of the purchase price must be cash...
...best of these jingles are such a neat blend of humor, whimsey and corn that they seemed to come from the pen of an old master. Not so. The nearest thing in Burma-Vita to an old master is the man who started them, and the company as well-Allan Gilbert Odell, 42, the athletic vice president and sales manager of the company. He devoted so much of his youth to basketball and football that he acquired a thorough interest in liniments. By the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1925, he decided to produce and market...
...liniment flopped. A new shaving cream, a brushless one concocted by a company chemist, did little better, until Allan got his big idea. One day in 1926, he climbed into his car, drove out into the country near Minneapolis, posted signs so spaced and inscribed that a speeding motorist could read as he rode...
...signs became so popular and so many jingles were sent in to Burma-Vita that Allan Odell gave up writing them. The company also bought a few contributions from such professional wordsters as Berton Braley, Ted Cook, J. P. McEvoy. But most of the jingles which Odell rapidly spread across the U.S. came in as the result of Burma-Vita's offer to pay $100 for every one used. Some of the contributions Burma-Vita would like to use but doesn't lest they offend public taste. One of the more printable rejects...