Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the lead of The Thin Man (TIME, July 9, 1934), There's Always a Woman puts on a cheerful but exciting air of informality by making crime detection safe for the younger married set, plays prankish variations on the traditional theme that the police (Scotland Yard excepted) are always baffled. Best scene: Detective Blondell undergoing a third degree at the hands of her worsted cop competitors, ending up a fresh & dewy pink in a roomful of wilted bluecoats...
President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System last week put his annual stockholders' report on the air- in direct competition with Kay Kyser's dance orchestra on NBC-and it delighted Columbia executives that Mr. Paley had a bad case of microphone fright. Hovering around him in his office at Columbia's Madison Avenue studios in Manhattan were two production men, two vice presidents, one engineer, two page boys. There were duplicate microphones in case one broke down, a precaution not usually taken with either Jack Benny or President Roosevelt...
...hours before William Paley went on the air, David Sarnoff, president of RCA, met his stockholders in Radio City's Studio No. 8-H, world's biggest. For the last few years RCA meetings have been furious affairs, with abuse, denunciation and a certain amount of gloomy prophesying. But last autumn RCA declared its first common stock dividend, and last week Mr. Sarnoff's stockholders confined themselves to asking how about Frank McNinch and Paul Walker. Said Mr. Sarnoff: "We have nothing to conceal, nothing to hide...
Biggest check the Government have on Imperial Airways is its Empire Air Mail Program by which, at a three cent per half-ounce rate, all mail is carried by air to South Africa, India, Hong Kong and Australia. To carry the first batch of mail at the new rate from England to the East, Imperial Airways chose a Quantas pilot, 40-year-old G. U. ("Guppy") Allan, renowned in Australia as an opener of new air routes. So heavy were Pilot Allan's mailbags (8,000 Ib.) that passengers were transferred to another ship. Imperial Airways looks forward this...
Born in Turkey, of Greek and Armenian parents, Albert Isaac Bezzerides reached the U. S. when he was nine months old, grew up on his father's farm near Fresno, was a champion quarter-miler in high school. Unable to pronounce his name ("Buzz-air-uh-dees"), his schoolmates called him Buzzard's Knees. He won a scholarship to the University of California, quit in disgust three months before graduation. Then he settled down to truck driving. When he got married he began to write. Prodded on by his wife, he began selling stories to Story, Scribner...