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...stand it, but had actually increased the volume of his business. From across the sea came reports that in 1932 more Spanish, Mexican and South American senors had called up their black-eyed senoritas than at any time during the previous year. Even Shanghai Chinese were growing increasingly fond of the wired black devil. I. T. & T. finished the year with 4.4% more telephones than it had in 1931. Plainly Sosthenes Behn had a solid footing for his Ericsson deal. And last week came another evidence of I. T. & T.'s vitality: a new radiotelegraph circuit between San Francisco...
GREAT CIRCLE-Conrad Aiken-Scrib- ner ($2). Though Author Aiken takes his title from geometry (great circle: a circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best...
Producer Zanuck is fond of telephones that fall apart, flypaper seats, and of "ribbing" his friends in a high rasping voice. Once at a Hollywood party he was found trying to write a story under a rug. His friend and immediate superior, Vice President Jack Warner, opposed Zanuck's resignation last week. Outsiders wondered whether President Harry Warner, ready to cut off his nose to spite his face, had cut off his head instead. Zanuck plans to produce 12 pictures a year with his new company. He will be paid $4,500 a week, 50% of the profits...
Last fortnight a schoolboy in Fond du Lac, Wis. wrote to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who chews gum: "What part has gum played in your success?" Gumchewer Farley wrote back, "I don't know whether gum played any part in my success, but it was not a retarding factor." Last week the boy crowed back, "My assistant principal said chewing gum was a bad habit, that no gumchewer could succeed. I read your letter in the class, and it got a lot of applause...
...though she had cause to complain of his lack of ardor, respected and feared his virility. But Harry had such a winning way with him that his boss never fired him permanently, and once when Harry threatened to quit, surprised him by begging him to stay. Durham got so fond of Harry that when Dot, a "dudine" from the East, invaded the sanctity of the woods and took Harry's mind hopelessly off his work, Durham went crazy with jealousy. With a conveniently sprained ankle confining Dot to Harry's cabin they were just on the verge...