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...other half of the story is what Columbia did not do during the boom. It did not keep expensive stars under long-term contracts. It did not load itself with theatre chains. It did not get itself heavily in debt. Such unusual wisdom in Hollywood was due chiefly to the frugal instincts of the Cohns. Brother Jack's early experiences filming Westerns in a woodsy spot on upper Manhattan Island convinced them that a cheap picture can be made to yield as high a boxoffice return as an expensive one. In 1920 they began their career on Hollywood...
...crony of Stalin, Kaganovich has lately been winning his boss around to buying some Russian railway equipment. Meanwhile, however, he had to perform the impossible to keep Stalin's favor, had to load more Russian freight cars than could be loaded-unless. This "unless" was Comrade Kaganovich's inspiration, his stroke of Bolshevik genius. Seeing that freight car loadings could not be increased unless passenger service, already inadequate, was ruthlessly curtailed, the Commissar for Transport has been busy reducing the number of Russian passenger trains, cutting out sleeping cars except those used by foreign tourists, slashing the number...
...Manchuria the Japanese regularly load trains with seeds, cinemas, drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field...
...diseases like angina pectoris, in which strong emotions play a part. Reason: the intelligent person understands and worries about his condition, and it gets worse; the madman has no such worries. To doctors, Dr. Donald Gregg of Wellesley, Mass. gave this advice: "Let us lessen our emotional load by avoiding excess of emotional stimuli, by slackening our pace, or bearing it intermittently; by avoiding excessive specialization thereby lessening our dependence on others, and by developing our knowledge of facts and wisdom in applying these facts, and by developing a philosophy and a faith to take the place of that which...
With the peak load of epidemics likely to rise to five times the normal capacity of the building, it would seem that the duty of Harvard to the student body ended when it provided medical offices and an infirmary as a clearing house. Physicians capable of swift, expert analysis at Holyoke House and ward facilities for non-major aliments such as colds, laryngitis, and the like would fulfill the college's responsibility. Contagious diseases, major operations--such as appendicitis--and infectious skin cases should be referred by the medical advisers to the proper Boston hospital...