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...Reconstruction Finance Corp. filed into its board room one day last week and sat down in four of the seven chairs around the directors' table. Secretary Woodin, ex-officio a board member, had hurried over from the Treasury to make up a quorum with Texas' Jesse Holman Jones, Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch, Utah's Wilson McCarthy...
...streets by thousands, singing and shouting. The biggest group, headed by John M. Fewkes, advanced upon Chicago Title & Trust Co. which they knew holds in escrow $10,000,000 for tax payments of property owners. Leader Fewkes and a committee gained access to the bank's President Holman Pettibone. Meanwhile the teachers were trying to swarm upstairs past the guards. A policeman flourished his night stick. A teacher named Ted Farrington ducked, took a resounding blow on the neck instead of the head. He toppled and the crowd surged up to mob the guards. Women screamed, fainted. Windows crashed...
...unsolved death of Zachary Smith Reynolds, Camel cigaret scion (TIME, July 18): agreement between the Reynolds family, his second wife Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds and his first wife Anne Cannon Reynolds, towel heiress, awarding $2,000,000 each to his two children, Libby Reynolds' son Zachary Smith Jr. and Anne Cannon Reynolds...
...superb characterization of Middle-Western family life, admirably carried out by an able cast. Francis G. Cleveland, as the dentist who loves nothing better than to read the evening paper undisturbed and to rule his family with an iron hand, plays his part capably. So also does Marjorie Holman, as the lady of the household who thinks entirely in terms of what the neighbors will think about this and that. The whole cast, in fact; is well chosen...
...ambitious jazz, which nowadays seems all dressed up with no place to go. Two parts at least-the melody given to the lovers and the strident "Dance on a Dime"-should make song hits as rich as Johnny Green's "Body & Soul," which Torchsinger Libby Holman made famous...