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Elected first president of the Harvard Club of Chungking, temporary capital of China, was owl-eyed, moon-faced T. V. Soong ('15), "China's Smartest Banker" and Chiang Kai-shek's brother...
Hollywood is more than academically interested in all this, for Arrowhead is financed largely with cinema money. Chief Stockholders Schenck and Paley sold $1,000,000 of the corporation debentures, the 10,000 shares of common stock to Hollywoodians. Among the stockholders are Constance Bennett (one of the smartest of cinema's businesswomen), Claudette Colbert, Darryl Zanuck, Al Jolson, Paley & friends are planning to sell $500,000 more of common stock issue to finish the job of making Arrowhead a glittering combination of Carlsbad and Sun Valley...
...Wall Street Journal had a society editor, she would appreciate that company. There were tough, jut-jawed Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of National Steel, smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family...
Geneva (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Maurice Colbourne & Barry Jones). At 83, Shaw is still almost the smartest guy in show business. Last year his Geneva-spoofing the League of Nations and potching the dictators-was produced at the Malvern Festival and in London. This year, the minute war broke out Shaw decided to bring Geneva up to date. He further announced that as long as the headlines continue to be dramatic, he will continue to crib from them...
MAUD-Edited by Richard Lee Strouf-Macmillan ($3.50). The Journal of Maud Rittenhouse, beginning in 1881 when she was the smartest and (nearly) the prettiest girl in high school in Cairo, Ill. What Maud confided to her leather-bound journal during the next 14 years makes as fascinating reading as was ever found in an attic...