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...There are three categories of photographers-scientific, amateur and those who photograph for profit. From the last I have suffered a great deal and Princess Mary has suffered a great deal more. Such photographers have the most tiresome knack of clicking the camera just at a moment when one's mouth is wide open and some unattractive attitude is being struck by their victim. I would like to call that kind of a photographer a damned nuisance...
Lawyer Steuer hastened to explain that the undeclared goods had all belonged to his wife, not to himself. Then "merely ... to demonstrate that there was no possibility for the Government to be wronged of a cent or that she or I should profit a cent," Lawyer Steuer made this astonishing statement...
...Profit & Loss. Public Accountants Ernst & Ernst compiled the profits & losses of their customers for the first half of this year. For 380 representative corporations in 22 lines of business, business in the aggregate was 7.92% better than the first six months...
Nine years ago President Henry Sturgis Dennison decided that the time had come to set up some sort of health supervision for his 130 major and minor executives. He is a paternalistic employer. He put in the Taylor System of scientific management in his Framingham factories; he started a profit-sharing system, through which the employes now own a good third of the company's stock...
...speedily sank in his first production, The Romantic Age by A. A. Milne, a flop. He heard someone comment on the name above "Presents" on the program, and changed it to Jed Harris. Next he wheedled enough more backing to put on Weak Sisters, which showed a small profit. After that he met George Abbott, co-author of Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, which he produced. Love 'Em and Leave 'Em was a smash...