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...American, was studio manager for Warner Bros, in Britain. With Chief Sound Engineer Ernest Royle, "Doc" was responsible for last week's scoop broadcast of the sound of a flying bomb, passing very close overhead and crashing with a terrific explosion. Salomon and Royle went buzz-bomb hunting with a sound recording van for three nights before they got their perfect recording. So realistic was their sound track that, when it was played at Warner's studio and later at the Ministry of Information, building employes ran pell-mell for shelter...
...Lever Bros, the deal was a gold mine. Pepsodent grossed $3 million in 1943 and is leading the toothpaste field on its slogan of "Pepsodent with Irium." Irium-smiling "Chuck" Luckman, the man who put the flash in Pepsodent, will stay on as president, will make no changes in policy, and will keep the famed, funny $15,000-a-week Bob Hope radio show to advertise only Pepsodent. Said Luckman: "This is a merger of champions. Together we ought to do pretty well...
...that Chicago's advertising millionaire, Albert Lasker, for 25 years mastermind of profitable Pepsodent, and Kenneth Smith, son of the company's founder and its chief stockholder, wanted to get out. Under the terms of the sale all stock, including Luckman's 15%, goes to Lever Bros...
Significance. Land I Have Chosen has been sold to Warner Bros, for $150,000. What it says is that popular U.S. fiction has come full circle, that the kind of situations and characterizations that ten years ago were the province of left-wing intellectuals have become the substance of skillful popular writing. In Land I Have Chosen the anti-Nazi propaganda is the basis of popular appeal; the story Southampton is highbrow, subtle, and in effect smuggled into the book...
Family Man. In 1914 Raymond Spruance had married lighthearted, handsome Margaret Dean, whose father ran Dean Bros. Pumps, Inc., of Indianapolis. They had two children, Margaret, now 24, and Edward Dean, 28. Edward followed his father into the Navy via Annapolis...