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...then that Harper & Bros, in New York and Jonathan Cape in London picked up earlier versions of the manuscript from Streit's agents, read them and decided that the reeling world might like to reflect on one man's suggestions for salvation. In New York and London, Union Now appeared in the bookstores and Streit's idea was launched. A modest 13,-ooo books were sold in the U.S. It was all the encouragement that Streit needed. The idealist was reborn...
...Hope's $22,500 weekly stint, rumor says, will be dropped this spring by Lever Bros. Rexall Drugs is replacing the $14,500 Phil Harris and Alice Faye show with Richard Diamond, a Dick Powell $4,500 thriller. Amos 'n' Andy reportedly may have to slice their $20,000 price tag if they remain on the air. Burns & Allen, a $12,000 package last year, is now said to be selling for $8,500. Gloomed one radioman: "The handwriting on the wall is getting bigger and redder than ever, and these are the days when people...
...juiciest plums a young writer can pluck is the $10,000 that Harper & Bros, gives away every two years to the winner of its novel contest. For 1950 the lucky man is a 27-year-old South Carolinian, Max Steele, whose Debby was chosen by a jury of knowing hands: Short Story Writer Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott, and San Francisco Chronicle Critic Joseph Henry Jackson. A few of the Harper prizewinners (Wescott's The Grandmothers and Paul Horgan's The Fault of Angels) were widely and deservedly cheered, but the 1950 winner is not in their...
...Memorial, on the apparent theory that the emancipator was too good for the G.O.P.). The speakers' table was aglow with the beaming faces of the President and Vice President, Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle & wife, Mrs. 0. Max Gardner, widow of the late Under Secretary of the Treasury, Lever Bros.' Ex-President Charles Luckman and fourscore or more Cabinet officers, governors and big-shot Democrats from coast to coast. The 523 tables at which 5,300 ordinary diners sat, elbow to elbow on folding chairs, were fitted out with red, white, blue or starred tablecloths, thus creating a huge...
...film has not been shown publicly since its premiere on October 14. Warner Bros, looked at it and decided that cutting it down to the twenty minute length which they felt necessary would be impossible...