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...Fumed Oak, billed as "an unpleasant comedy," is the best of the lot. After 17 dreary years of marriage, a respectable suburbanite walks out on his nagging wife, shrewish mother-in-law and doltish daughter. But first, he tells them all off. Betty Ann Davies, Mary Merrall and Dorothy Gordon are suitably unpleasant as the ladies, and Stanley Holloway is just about right as the long-suffering worm who turns...
...Years (1902), was welcomed alike by George Meredith and Punch. When he wrote The Phantom Fleet, a poetic plea for a bigger & better British navy, even the Admiralty was roused. "The Navy League made use of it on Trafalgar Day ... and presented me with a walkingstick made of the oak and bronze of Nelson's Victory...
...chairman of the board of Pittsburgh's Vitro Manufacturing Co. and a wartime leader in the Manhattan Project; of a heart attack; in Summit, N.J. In 1943-45, heading a group of 2,000 top U.S. scientists and engineers, he directed the secret planning and construction of Oak Ridge's $500,000,000 Uranium 235 separating plant, completed it five precious weeks ahead of schedule...
Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes's first piece of fan mail after he took over his broad oak desk in the Pentagon last February was a postcard from a Tennessean who, after seeing Kyes's picture in the paper, wrote: "You look to me as though you could spit in the devil's eye." Big (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.), craggy Roger Kyes* makes a similar impression on people who encounter him face to face. After meeting him for the first time, a Pentagonian remarked: "He looks like the kind...
...last week Klein had 800 employees in plants in Detroit, Oak Park, and Tiffin, Ohio, turning out 50,000 sets a day (retail price: $2.50 and $5.00) for a gross of more than $1,000,000 a month. This week, to meet the demand, he will lease another factory in Paterson, N.J. and add another 400 people to his payroll...