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Other scheduled productions include "The Passionate Congressman," starting June 25; "My Sister Eileen," with Libby Holman, on July 2, "Winterset," featuring Vera Zorina, on July 9, and "Alice in Wonderland," beginning July...
...Holman Cone is also an optimist this week, as much as it goes against his true spirit. That Disbursing grade ruined his sorrowful outlook on life for three full days; but he soon recovered and from beneath his overcoat and muffler he moans that he "broke down" his health to achieve this grade. He also shudders when he remembers that night he was forced to evacuate his quarters without benefit of slippers...
Wounded veterans in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital have twisted restlessly under the quips and songs of entertainers. What they really wanted to hear were the plans which U.S. industry has for their future-after they are discharged. Last week big, red-faced Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), stepped up to the hospital's loudspeaker. In his deep, Texan voice, he told the G.I.s of his company's plans for them...
...discharged veteran who wants to go into the filling-station business, said Holman, should apply to Standard. It is ready to spend up to $3,000 per veteran to build him a filling station. The cash will be a loan: a man's character his collateral. Standard has talked in terms of $5,000,000 to get the project under way. Holman assured veterans that there are no strings attached to the offer; they need not sell Standard's products...
...There is nothing charitable about the plan," said Holman. "It's good business." What better investment could Standard make, Holman asked? In the postwar years, the oil industry must have thousands of new retail outlets for its products...