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...receivers on their prompt rehabilitation of the company, terminated the receivership, handed the company back to its management with liquid assets greatly increased. All creditors had been paid in full within eight months. Christmas sales had been the biggest in history, sales for the full year biggest since the peak year 1930. Said Judge Fake: "This was the most successful receivership in the history of this court...
Alexander Wollcott's retirement from The New Yorker occurred at what many observers considered the peak of an extraordinary career. Once the ranking dramacritic of Manhattan, he had become a sort of glorified gossip columnist, a genteel Walter Winchell, and a peevish prophet of arts & letters. Few men can tell a story as entertainingly as Alexander Woollcott, and few would dare to be as malicious. As Cream of Wheat's "Town Crier" on the radio, he received more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns...
Squash activity is reaching a peak during the examination period while all the other sports without exception are lessening their schedules. Today the Varsity B team will meet the Union Boat Club while the C team confronts the Milton Club. The Freshman C squad travels to M.I.T...
...sang her farewell to opera, Manhattan's Metropolitan built her a throne on the stage, fairly swamped her with flowers, gifts, eulogies. Operagoers that bleak February night cheered themselves croupy while tears ran down many a wrinkled old cheek. But why was this great singer retiring at the peak of her career? "Because I like the sun best when it is high." Last week in Manhattan Death came to Marcella Sembrich who, save for Schumann Heink and Calvé, was the last survivor of an age which produced Patti, Lilli Lehmann, Melba, Nordica, Nilsson and the two de Reszkes...
...outsold garishly advertised Camel (33,800,000,000) and Lucky Strike (33,000,000,000). Old Gold was a poor fourth with 5,500,000,000. Total consumption of the leading four was up 8.4% from last year, but nearly 7,000,000,000 below the 1930 peak. Chief reason for this drop, according to Standard Statistics, was competition from 10? cigarets (Paul Jones, Wings, etc.), mentholated brands (Spud, Kool, etc.), and the Phillip Morris English Blend...