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...make more money alone, by avoiding the tremendous overhead of big studio plants and top-heavy platoons of executives. Example: Actor James Cagney and his brother Bill have made as much on two independent pictures, even by paying corporation income taxes, as they made on six pictures at Warner Bros...
...some 5,300 orders (with cash deposits), probably the fattest backlog of anyone in the light-plane industry. And there were plenty more in the offing, thanks to a smart deal to sell his planes in department stores (John Wanamaker's Manhattan and Philadelphia stores and Mandel Bros, in Chicago already have contracts to sell Piper planes). Next year, he hopes to step way out in front of the industry with his single-place, 90-m.p.h. Skycycle, which will sell for under...
Divorced. John Ringling North, 42, former president of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus; by beauteous French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey Agassiz North, 35; after five years of marriage, three of separation; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Example: soon after they were married, he left her to hunt for a mate for his lonely gorilla, Gargantua...
...chips were down, hired the late, great Wendell Lewis Willkie as defense counsel. Willkie was eminently successful. Hays, realizing that he was on the skids, tried to save the job he had held since the office was founded in 1922. But last June his authority fell completely when Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. became the first major studio to pull out of the Hays Office...
...nation's sporting-goods stores were beginning to spruce up. Big manufacturers like A. G. Spalding & Bros. and Wilson Sporting Goods Co. were reconverting at top speed...