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...boss for more than a decade, directing a huge supermarket of finance that now handles 12% of the New York Stock Exchange's public round-lot volume and 20% of its odd-lot trading, and has serviced 450,000 investor-clients in the past three months alone. A shrewd New Englander from South Hadley Falls, Mass., he attended Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., went from Amherst ('16) to a $7-a-week runner's job in the fledgling Merrill Lynch Co. with a burning conviction that the brokerage business had a tremendous future...
...Natalie); of pneumonia; in Las Vegas. A two-reeler actress at 14, Siren Talmadge vamped her way to high-salaried high living (up to $7,500 a week) in a low-tax era, became one of Hollywood's top-rated movie queens in the '20s under the shrewd guidance of first husband Joseph M. Schenk (through such films as Smilin' Through, Camille), retired in 1930 with wealth intact after an unsuccessful try at the talkies (and a Mexican divorce from Schenk), stormily wed (in 1934) and divorced Comic George Jessel, later, a victim of arthritis, lived...
...receipts shown-by some of her recent foreign pictures (The Last Bridge, The Heart of the Matter, Gervaise), the we-gotta-have-new-talent hounds at M-G-M came briskly to a point.* Actress Schell was promptly signed to a comfy contract, written to her own shrewd terms: four Hollywood pictures in seven years, $100,000 for the first picture, $175,000 for the last, script and director to be approved by Actress Schell, full freedom to make pictures for any other producer...
...Monroe. Maria Schell has already burst on several preview audiences with a flash that clearly dazzled them, and last week the boys in the executive steamroom were sweating out the final decisions and the finishing touches on the film-the anxious countdown before the launching of a star that shrewd little Benny Thau, an M-G-M production boss, expects to be "as big as Bergman...
...MERCHANT OF PRATO, by Iris Origo. A biography of a 14th century Tuscan merchant reconstructed from bales of letters and ledgers. What could have become a dreary recital is in fact a shrewd look at an early capitalist, a fine piece of social history and a graceful piece of writing...