Facts & Figures

Happy Ending. Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, the feuding owners of United Artists, got together in a movie cutting room and made peace. U.A.'s income--largely because of their feuding--had reportedly slumped to $192,000 last year. They compromised on a new president, Gradwell L. Sears, who has been U.A.'s vice president since 1941. David 0. Selznick, who had been in at the start of the feud (TIME, Dec. 23), had sold out his U.A. share for $2,000,000.

Green Light. As a trade name, "California" is no California monopoly; it can be used even by New York firms. So ruled the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court dismissed a suit of 75 California manufacturers, who argued that clothes made in California were superior and that New York clothiers, using the California trade mark, were taking a free ride on the state's fair name.

Uplift. A new solution to the old female problem of holding up stockings without girdle or garterbelt was displayed in New York department stores. It was a rayon pantie with four garters attached. The price: $1.25. The name: Suspants.

Bible Belting. When Quincy Beltram of the International Edge Tool Co. of Newark, NJ. was asked by the state mediation board why he had fired eleven workers who had joined a C.I.O. union, he said he was following the biblical exhortation: "Cast out the scorner and strife shall cease." On his return to the plant, Beltram, who presides at daily Bible classes for his workers, found that the lessons had sunk in. Pickets greeted him with a sign on which they too quoted freely from the Bible: "Masters, give unto your workers that which is just and equal." After another look at his Bible, Beltram rehired his workers, signed a union contract.

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