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...NATHAN ZIMMERMAN
This revolutionary plan did little to cure the law situation as new students averaged only about nine a year during the next decade. Just when the Corporation was wishing that it had gone into the anatomy business instead, it managed to secure the resignations of Parker and Stearns, got Nathan Dane, a leading Federalist politician, to give $10,000 for a Dane Professorship for Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and hired John Hooker Ashmun to serve as a full-time Royall Professor...
Their crowning achievement was buying into State Street in 1936. The newcomers were none too popular with such established State Streeters as Marshall Field and Carson Pirie Scott. But Goldblatt bargains were attractive, and sales zoomed. Maurice and Nathan kept their profits in one bank account. They drove to work in the same Duesenberg...
...When Nathan died, Maurice lost his zest for business. He got to brooding about the thing that had killed his brother -cancer. One day he announced: "From now on, all I want is to see cancer licked." As soon as the two younger Goldblatt brothers, Joel and Louis, returned from the war, Maurice turned the family's 15-store, $86-million-a-year business over to them and went out to fight cancer...
Adapted from Robert Nathan's 1928 novel, The Bishop's Wife is Sam Goldwyn's and RKO's special Christmas cookie. It is a big, slick production. The only thing it lacks is taste. Some moviegoers may also be distressed by the lack of Christmas spirit in what is apparently the moral of the picture: you can't trust a soul with your wife...