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...Nathan Lewis Miller, onetime (1921-23) Republican Governor of New York, who now serves U. S. Steel Corp. as its chief counsel...
...stories. The fact is that he has found his metier and doesn't choose to turn again to aesthetic writing. Only last week he refused Burton Rascoe's suggestion that he reprint in book form his famous Raegan Stories that appeared in 1913 or thereabouts in the Mencken-Nathan Smart Set. He doesn't want those sophisticated tales cropping up now. If they were reprinted, his name would carry them into thousands of American homes, where it is a parental maxim that a Terhune book is fit for the children to read. Then the Smart Set vein would crop out?...
...last week planned 58 features. Like other companies, Fox will depend more on adaptations than original stories: Sinclair Lewis' Work of Art, Robert Nathan's One More Spring, Stallings' The First World War, Pitkin's Life Begins at Forty. Owning 45% pf British Gaumont, Fox last year distributed four British Gaumont pictures in the U. S. Because they were poorly received there will be no British pictures on the Fox schedule this year...
...point of view of the historian, certain changes in the manuscript, while they improve the continuity and the story of the Rothschild family, introduce purely fictitious events, thereby destroying the historical authenticity of the production. To give a few examples: the loan to the Allies, which in the picture Nathan forced from Baring, Metternich, Talleyrand, and Ledrantz, was actually abandoned when Rothschild depressed the market on government bonds; the family's system of branch banking was not Mayer's idea, but that of his brilliant son, Nathan; instead of Nathan, it was his descendant who was knighted, during the Gladstone...
...Memorial, first exclusive cancer hospital in the U S., second in the world.* At the speakers' table were, among others, President Dean Lewis of the American Medical Association; President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; Harry Pelham Robbins of Manhattan's Empire Trust Co., who presided; Lucius Nathan Littauer, glovemaking benefactor; William Henry Donner, grandfather of President Roosevelt's Grandson William Donner Roosevelt; Dr. Clarence Cook Little, director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. President Roosevelt sent a message of good wishes to "Memorial Hospital [whose] human clinical research and service in the field...