Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold ("Pie") Traynor, Pittsburgh Pirates' great third baseman and hitter of the '20s and '30s (his lifetime batting average: .320), was admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., with the late, great Yankee pitcher Herb Pennock...
...prospectus was undecided on whether to call TIME pieces "stories" or "articles." It was, however, firm on their brevity: not over 400 words. Calvin Coolidge, struck by their conciseness, called them "items" (pronounced eye-terns). When TIME'S narrative formula began to emerge in the mid-'20s, not all readers liked it. Said one: "Now I know why it's called TIME; it takes so long to get to the point...
Kenton is a 6 ft. 4½ in. Californian who at 36 has the same ambition Paul Whiteman had in the '20s: to marry classical music and jazz. In Whiteman's case, what emerged was pseudo-symphonic-a blend of Tin Pan Alley and Tchaikovsky. In Kenton's, it is a driving, nervous (and technically skillful) wedding of swing and Schonberg. Kenton started his outfit in 1941, got ahead fast by getting up early to sign autographs, and looking up disc jockeys whenever he hit a new town. For the past two years, his musicians have been...
Died. Douglas H. Cooke, 61, onetime publisher of Leslie's Weekly, Judge, and the old Life magazine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In the '20s, he printed the chipper early works of Robert Benchley and John Held Jr., turned conservative when the magazines and the era folded, became a publisher of hospital magazines...
Catering to the public love of murder was one of the things which made Hearstling Damon Runyon's name a byword of the '20s and '30s. Trials and Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe...