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...refused to die. He hustled off to Moscow, checked into the best hotel in town, and paid a call on Molotov. Two months later Browder was back in the U.S. as American representative of three official Russian publishing houses. The Kremlin had apparently decided that Browder was a valuable option on the day when friendly cooperation between Communism and capitalism might once more be the international party line...
Last week the option seemed to have run out. A newsman called at Browder's one-room, $100-a-month office on Manhattan's West 42nd Street and found that the publishing business had been closed up since the end of July. Earl Browder no longer had a pipeline to the Kremlin. "I have not been able to talk to Joe Stalin and find out if he still loves me," said Browder, wryly. "I am unemployed at present and looking...
Louis B. Mayer, party of the first part in many a six-figure contract, had his own option picked up by Loew's, Inc. Presi dent Nicholas M. Schenck, who signed him up to head Loew's-owned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a few more years...
...minute CBS show last year, Burrows tried his song parodies on a mass audience. After 29 weeks, his sponsor dropped his option. Explained Burrows: "That's the equivalent of where in another business the boss says, 'I'll trouble you for your key to the washroom.' It leads to unemployment...
...songs, with Duke Ellington behind him, Billy was to get a respectable $2,000 a week. Said his manager last week: "Before that appearance, if the Paramount had offered us an option for next year at $3,000, we would have snapped it up. Now, we don't know how much to ask for him from week to week...