Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Hearstmen of long service marveled when, in 1927, "the chief" reached out to the Manchester, N. H. Union & Leader, plucked its publisher, Col.* William Franklin Knox, and made him publisher of the Boston American. Year later Publisher Hearst boosted his colonel to be general manager of all Hearst dailies, with a reputed salary of $150,000 a year. The course of the next three years was not wholly smooth. Big, self-confident Col. Knox several times offered his resignation, which "W. R." refused, believing perhaps that experience in the big business of chain publishing would eventually shape...
After his momentous trip in 1896, Mr. de Vaux has done much traveling, all with a purpose. From bicycles he turned to automobiles. He worked for General Motors, built the Pacific Coast Chevrolet plant at Oakland. Later he became associated with another ex-GM man, William Crapo Durant, built the Durant plant in Oakland, Calif., a showplace of Western industry. Since 1929 he has headed Durant Motor Co. of California which assembles and sells Durants under a participation contract with Durant Motors, Inc. In selling. Mr. de Vaux has attained a great reputation, reaps fat commissions. He lives in Piedmont...
...Charles Proteus Steinmetz,* John Hays Hammond,† Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's engineering college,* the late Elmer Ambrose Sperry.† Architect Irving Kane Pond, Bridge Builder Ralph Modjeski,* President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories,*President Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh University, Irving Langmuir of General Electric...
...Herbert-cum-Ringling Bros. For the chief attraction of the show is a troupe of Singer's midgets who dress up as penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults and a small but energetic pit orchestra...
Triangle shows must have a story, however remote from the general scheme of entertainment. This year's story concerns Wilbur Wilkins, the campus loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method...