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Come and Get It was budgeted by expansive Producer Goldwyn at $1,000,000. It cost 25% more. Part of the increase was caused by delay when Director Howard Hawks quit, after differences of opinion with Producer Goldwyn, to be replaced by William Wyler. Part was caused by Stunt Director Richard Rosson's discovery, when he went to the north woods to photograph lumberjacks riding falling trees or breaking up log jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood...
...future, the Digest asked its readers: "Should the Democratic Party have quit in 1924 . . . instead of going on to the greatest triumph in its history? Should the University of Minnesota . . . give up [football] because it finally lost one game?" On the question of a change in polling methods, the Digest hedged: "We'll cross that bridge when we come...
...inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist Goldberg quit drawing altogether, devoted full time to his writing instead...
...manufacturing division, then switched to Dodge. After the War he did a turn in a Manhattan bank, leaving to help Walter P. Chrysler with the metamorphosis of old Maxwell Motor into Chrysler Corp. For four years he was Chrysler's works manager. Then restless Mr. Mason quit the motor industry for the second time, entering Kelvinator at the top after a brief term as president for another refrigerator maker...
...story concerns a crack squad of "connectors," the men who bolt structural beams in place to be followed by the "gunners'' who rivet them. Andy, the arrogant and prideful leader of the gang, becomes angry when one of his men, Nils, announces that he is going to quit because his wife is afraid he will fall. Another man does fall, whereupon his co-workers traditionally knock off for the day, start drinking in their favorite barroom. When Nils refuses to change his mind. Andy drunkenly concocts a ruse by which he in duces Nils to believe that...