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...Gravell watched his employes squirm, then gave them checks for doctor bills, past-due installments on radios, mortgages, or, if they were free from debt, a check for perhaps $200 or $300. One worker, after receiving nearly $5,000, turned on Mr. Gravell and shouted: "You're a hell of a boss. I thought I wasn't doing so well and was worried about losing my job, and now you do this." Then he started crying. Paintmaker Gravell's goodness was not his first. Employes said last week he had always given generous Christmas presents, had loaned...
...into my newspaper office and one day he said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz...
BARREN METAL-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). A sentimental family chronicle with an all-Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud...
...Tyrol Guzzi Lantschner comes of a famed skiing family, took second in the last Olympic slalom. Their complete mastery is pointed up both by their continual burlesque of normal ski technique and by the beauty of the photography. Chief cameraman was Hans Schneeberger, who shot the remarkable White Hell of Pitz Palu (TIME Oct. 13 1930). To catch the skiing antics of the chief characters of Slalom, he rode along beside them with his camera mounted on his skis, thus avoiding that flaw of most skiing cinemas in which the skier flashes past and is gone. Not only did Cameraman...
...club and not Mel was the chief purveyor of tickets, Mel went to see his friend Frank Navin, part owner of the Tigers. Said Mel with dignity: "Frank, you've got to get me two tickets. . . . They're for Walter Briggs." Mr. Navin snapped: "And who the hell is Walter Briggs?" Mel grew eloquent about Briggs's loyalty to the Tigers, offered to introduce him to Navin. When he did, Briggs got tickets...