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...best year in the firm's history," agrees Managing Partner Charles Moran of the Manhattanbased brokerage house of Francis I. du Pont & Co., one of the four who have overcome the general passion for secrecy. Last year Du Pont's profits climbed 19½% to $4,340,152, while its revenues rose 12% to $70,637,738. That may sound like a bundle, but it actually amounted to a mere 6.1% profit ratio, well below the amount of revenue that most industrial companies keep after taxes. Still, it was a considerably better performance than that of the typical...
...this flat-footed travelogue of Gangland, 1929, Capone is champion of bootlegging, extortion and all other racket sports. The simple art of murder has placed him at the top alone-until George ("Bugs") Moran begins muscling in on Chicago's North Side. "I want that son of a bitch hit!" rages Al, and assigns exterminators to get rid of the Bugs in his operation. On Feb. 14, a bunch of thugs dressed as cops enter Moran's garage and gun down everyone-except Moran, who happens to be off the premises. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre...
...heavy, Robards turns out to be strictly middleweight. His lean features and nasal drawl are foreign to the squat Neapolitan hustler. Occasionally, someone in the cast does lend an air of authenticity, notably Ralph Meeker as Moran and David Canary as a flat-faced machine gunner who seems to have stepped out of a lineup onto the set. But all too often the period costumes and a fleet of chuffing phaetons, landaus and flivvers look like the only genuine articles on view...
...TIME Cover does a disservice to Newark. By featuring Mr. Smith, you have increased a misfit's questionable fame. My children and the nation would have been more enlightened as to man's bravery, honor and humanity had you shown Fire Captain Moran or Patrolman Toto, who sacrificed their lives so that Newark citizens may live free of fear...
...Moran emphasized Churchill's personal limitations. He had an obsession with posterity, writing his memoirs after suffering his worst stroke so that history would not blame him for the future," Moran said. "His mental processes were rather suspect," and "he had no respect for science though he led a war that was won by science," the doctor added...