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The Velvet Touch (RKO Radio) opens with a furious quarrel. A Broadway actress (Rosalind Russell), famous as a drawing-room-comedienne, wants to move on to roles like Hedda Gabler and to move out on her producer and ex-lover (Leon Ames). He tells her contemptuously that he made her...
The young man behind Nowadays has never held a newspaper job, but he has newspapering in his blood. Gangling (6 ft. 4 in.) K. (for Knowlton) Lyman Ames, 28, is a grandson of the famed Knowlton ("Snake") Ames who played football for Princeton in the '90s and later founded...
When Bud got out of the Army in 1946, his uncle John Ames, publisher of the Journal of Commerce, helped him line up $400,000 worth of backing from such well-heeled Chicagoans as ex-Vice President Charles G. Dawes, a Cudahy and three Armours.
Bud Ames laid out $15,000 for surveys on the saving, spending and reading habits of the people who live along Midwestern Main Streets, in towns of 25,000 & under. This gave him plenty of ammunition to lay siege to advertisers. His editorial staff will be small, and lean heavily...
"This is not going to be any American Weekly with bare women and big microbes all over the place," said Ames. "We're going to try to do substantial and factual reporting."