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Radio. Headline writers last week called the Radio pool of 1929 "The Raskob Pool." Wall Street snorted, knowing full well that shrewd, red-haired Michael J. Meehan, Radio specialist on the Floor, had engineered it. Mike Meehan in 1928 had whipped Radio from $85.25 to over $500 a share (when it was split...
...incoming president, left a survey of "present-day trends of private practice in the U. S." to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the A. M. A.'s scientific Journal and popular Hygeia. Of 160,000 physicians in the U. S., Dr. Fishbein observed, 40,000 list themselves as specialists in the American Medical Directory. Among medical students the situation is now reversed. Three out of four medical school graduates go into one of the specialties. The specialist's income is greater than the general practitioner's. Yet "90% of all disease seen by physicians represents the type of disease that...
Bear Smith told the committee : "People do call me one of the big operators, but nobody has ever called me a big bear raider to my face." Mr. Gray tried but failed to get him to admit that the floor specialist in a stock would give to pools information as to buying and selling orders on his books...
Counsel Gray: But take the radio pool. Meehan, the exchange specialist, was a member. Mr. Smith: Mr. Meehan has never been a member of any pool. The pool account has always been in his wife's name...
Freaks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Director Tod Browning, one of the few truly individual directors in the U. S., is a specialist in horror. He is fond of anything that happens underground or in the dark, especially a murder. He prefers lovers who are physically deformed. He directed the late Lon Chaney in most of Chaney's best pictures. Before that he was a spieler for a sideshow, travelled twice around the world with a carnival in which he acted in blackface. Director Browning must have enjoyed making Freaks. It is one of the most macabre pictures ever filmed...