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After months of sober head-scratching, the directors of Paramount Pictures last week decided on a successor to President John Otterson, who got his walking papers at the last stockholders meeting (TIME, June 29). Their choice was Barney Bala ban, one of the new directors elected last month and co-founder of Chicago's chain of Balaban & Katz theatres...
...nature gentle, sensitive and without consuming passions, to be betrayed by weakness and evasion into disgraceful acts pregnant with the worst consequences." Eye-fass in Gaza is written in a choppy, experimental fashion which seems designed to take some of the curse of banality off this sober theme. It is divided into 54 episodes, each episode dated, but the dates related in an emotional rather than chronological pattern. Thus the first episode takes place in 1933, the second in 1934, the third in 1933, the fourth in 1902. These backward glances are intended to illuminate, in some consequential happening...
...acre Illinois farm in the summer, in winter taught school. After his conversion he left home from time to time to preach the new gospel. On one of these sallies he heard of a pious and nubile maiden named Sarah Pea, straightway sat down and wrote her a sober proposal of marriage. Like a good girl, Sarah shut her eyes, opened her Bible, stabbed with her finger. On the strength of the text her finger touched, she wrote him an enthusiastically respectful assent. Two weeks later they met, in four months hey were married...
...people in the U. S. are dependent on a scattered army of obscure technicians: the superintendents of urban waterworks. Last week 1,200 members of the American Water Works Association gathered in convention at Los Angeles, talked shop, complained about their pay, behaved themselves. A solemn and sober group, the waterworks superintendents are famed among hotelmen and convention solicitors for the fact that they almost never do any damage. In their convention lobby they gazed earnestly at water tinkling through complete model systems; at a scale model of Los Angeles' new automatic chlorinator, which has a photo-electric...
Famed among mining engineers for two sober works, Concentrating Ores by Flo tation and Economics of Mining, Dean Hoover, like his brother, worked his way through Stanford, managed Burmese and Australian mines, followed his brother to London to make a tidy fortune as a stock promoter. In Palo Alto he lives with his wife in a comfortable house four blocks from Brother Herbert's. Engineer Hoo ver's three firmest tenets are that the world stands to suffer from a metal short age, that wars are inevitable, that such terms as "culinary engineer," "cosmetic engineer," "sales engineer...