Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Certain Age (Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper; TIME...
...Stiffest job requirements are those for pilots: 1,200 solo-flying hours, college training, hiring-age limits 22 to 28. Prohibitive cost of acquiring so much flying time sends most candidates into the Army, Navy or Marines for two-to-four-year enlistments. There the Government spends up to $35,000 training each pilot. Flying U. S. air transport this year are 1,400 pilots and copilots, pilots averaging $600 monthly, co-pilots from...
Brought up in a musical family (his mother was a piano teacher), Sir Henry started his career at the age of ten as deputy organist in a London church. Later he gave recitals up & down the country, conducted opera, spent a period as a singing teacher. In the 44 years since the Promenade Concerts began he has done more conducting than any living man and has probably trained more orchestral players. Out of season he finds time to do wood carvings and carpentry and produce professional-looking landscape paintings. When the concert season is on he becomes a passion...
Born in Russia in 1878, Pianist Gabrilowitsch was a European celebrity at the age of 20. But his mature years as a concert artist were closely bound up with the U. S. From 1900 on he made some 25 U. S. concert tours. Eventually he made the U. S. his permanent home, became a U. S. citizen, married a U. S. woman, Clara Clemens, concert-singing daughter of Author Mark Twain...
...curtain of the new, resplendent Alexandria (see cut) first goes up in an age of hansom cabs, and the theatre's great days give the authors a chance to bring back scenes from a host of famous shows, from The Easiest Way and The Pink Lady to What Price Glory? and The Vortex. Every so often the pageant is halted because the theatre is rumored dead of various causes: Roosevelt I, the automobile, the war-tax, the movies, the radio, Roosevelt...