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...hotel at Augusta, Ga., the two top men in the U. S. cotton business spoke their thoughts on cotton's future. They were the tall, urbane Texan Will Clayton, whose Anderson, Clayton & Co. is the world's No. 1 cotton broker; and short, portly Oscar Johnston, No. 1 grower, whose plantation operations in Mississippi-50,000 acres worked by 3,000 farm hands-produce 16,000 bales of cotton a year. Will Clayton is a polished internationalist, a business diplomat who is now a Deputy Loan Administrator for Jesse Jones. Oscar Johnston is rooted in the Delta...
...Johnston Torney '41 heads the dramatic enterprise, assisted by Robert Coleman '42, Reginald Wigham '43, and Harvey C. Taylor...
Most of the top-ranking American players have had work done at the shop at some time or other. Bill Tilden, Vinnic Richards, and Little Bill Johnston used to drop in at Harry Cowles' when they were playing at Longwood. George Lott and Berkeley Bell still send their racquets up here for restringing. And the shop annually receives its order from an old Harvardian, now living in Singapore. All in all, upwards of 75,000 stringing jobs have been turned out at 67a Mt. Auburn Street in the past sixteen years...
Married. Oetje (rhymes with peachy) John Rogge, 36, redheaded. Assistant Attorney General who ably hounded State and local grafters in New Orleans, Kansas City. Detroit; and Wanda Johnston, 34; he for the second time; at Des Moines. Iowa...
Ellis Robinson as Augustus Billings (who spends the whole night trying to get out of a scrape with a little French girl) gets in a neat piece of acting. Others like the villain Johnson, played by Richard Wiechmann, mother-in-law Charlotte Armstrong or demure Claire Johnston have little chance at anything but a blush or a shrick. But they and the whole cast, in fact, can do this...