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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, his health cracked at 44, Joe Connolly called it quits and resigned. To replace him, in came Gortatowsky. Gorty had started 33 years ago as an unpaid cub on the Atlanta Constitution. When Hearst's King Features summoned him 22 years later he was the Constitution'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gorty Up | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Shrewd, rufous Hubert Renfro" Knickerbocker, prize-seal of Hearst's International News Service, disembarked in Manhattan, gloomily prophesied that the present war will last for "six years or so ... after that the real war begins. . . . None of us will ever live to see peace again. . . . There'll be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Year later Rachmaninoff gave up opera conducting, spent his leisure time writing more symphonies and piano concertos. In 1909 he began touring the U. S. as a pianist. Only two or three times, during his first few years in the U. S., did he take up the baton again, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rachmaninoff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

When it was all over, weary-looking Rachmaninoff was glad to get back to his Manhattan apartment, where he could finger his piano again undisturbed, smoke his constant de-nicotinized cigarets in peace.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rachmaninoff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The title: in Chinese, Pai jih p'o ching chih yuan;* in Tin Pan Alleyese, When I Get Out, Beloved. Inmate Yun, 27, based his song on a 2,000-year-old Cantonese legend of a separated bride & groom, joined again in old age with the aid of matching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Carols at Cherry Hill | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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