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...book Education for Death was en capsulated in Reader's Digest (February 1942), Hollywood had already passed it up. But one Manhattan movie man was interested. He was Edward A. Golden, a chubby, John Bunnyish old gentleman who had been a dentist for five years, a film distributor for 30. Distributor Golden had taken a shy at production not long before with a for-adults-only sermon on syphilis entitled No Greater Sin. The minute Golden read Education he knew it would make a picture. He even knew the title: Hitler's Children. That afternoon he gave Author...
Moore got into ship-engine building after years as a successful West Coast distributor of machine tools and a short stretch spent in Washington as a $1-a-year man in the machine-tool section of OPM. Stifled there by red tape and bungling, he soon left, bought the venerable Sunnyvale (Calif.) Joshua Hendy Iron Works, whose physical assets consisted chiefly of a dilapidated foundry, an assortment machine tools, 35 acres of pear orchard's and some skilled machinists. One of them, Peter McKeand, ground the shaft for the old U.S.S. Oregon. In the spring of 1941 Moore...
...longtime banker and newsprint magnate, he moved on to become head of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, biggest U.S. utility, and board chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. (which manufactures all the power produced on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls), world's largest private distributor of electric power...
Died. Casper Warren Briggs, 96, pioneer maker and distributor of magic-lantern slides; in Atlantic City. His "slip slide," showing figures that moved across a background, was one of the earliest forms of the motion picture...
...networks. Until last April, he was an on-&-off Mutual attraction. Fifteen minutes after he jabbered his jabberwacky over WOR for local sponsors, he repeated the show for the network. Theoretically, Mutual offered Here's Morgan to local sponsors, but there was only one taker-a beer distributor in Hawaii. So two months ago Morgan refused to continue the repeat broadcasts, contented himself with his sponsored WOR show...