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...Japanese. First they drummed out every eligible U. S., British, French, White Russian, Austrian-Jewish and Czecho-Slovakian citizen to vote with them. The number looked meagre. So the Westerners decided that if the Japanese could use puppets, so could they. They pooled large real-estate holdings and split them among hundreds of dummy "owners." When voting day came, the dummies flocked to the polls. Result: a Council comprised of five Chinese, five Britons, two Americans, and two very angry Japanese...
...keeps the funnybones of Fibber & Co. ribbing the customers in the old-fashioned way is still Don Quinn. He and the Jordans still split the radio salary three ways, a weekly net of something like $4,000. As top-line radio salaries go, this is small potatoes. Tip-off to the Johnson Glo-Coat bargain rate with Fibber & Co. is that S. C. Johnson & Son own the names Fibber McGee and Molly...
...most people, Arthur Honegger is the great locomotive man of music. He wrote Pacific 231, a huffing, whooshing, lickety-split program piece which has snorted down countless orchestral tracks in the past 16 years. "I love locomotives," says Composer Honegger, "the way other men love women or animals." A solid, massive-browed, bob-haired man, Honegger rode a New Haven locomotive, clad in beret and white overalls, on his last U. S. visit in 1929. Most of the time he lives in Paris. There Honegger shares a home not with a locomotive but a wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny...
Scattered from Philadelphia to San Francisco, the Brothers Rose meet only two or three times a year. Once they meet as stockholders, tot up the profits, split them five equal ways. Several times a week they meet by telephone, manage to pile up tolls of $10,000 a year in shop talk, family gossip...
...returned to Manhattan. Last week he announced that Atlas would split, like a cell, into two parts-one to stay with him in the money business, the other to be grafted to the lusty body of U. S. aircraft's Curtiss-Wright Corp...