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...secret, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. last week let out one of the biggest in the aircraft business. Out of a hangar at Fort Worth, Tex., Consolidated rolled its new, unconventional, six-motored giant, the XB-36 bomber-world's largest land plane. The development cost: approxi-' mately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Winged Cigar | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...before she married Jules E. Brulatour, pince-nezed grey-haired film tycoon (Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.), before she had operatic ambitions. Two years ago her debut with the Philadelphia Grand Opera (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928) was said to have cost Husband Brulatour $100,000. She had private rehearsals (at approxi- mately $5,000 apiece) with full-piece orchestra, established singers and a conductor to teach her opera technique. Now in a way reminiscent of her movie past she has equipped herself with a deluge of fantastic publicity. All Los Angeles heard last week that at home in Manhattan she sleeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Curtain Call | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "In all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to St. Olaf." New York World: "Some two score youths and maidens from Northfield, Minn., put on immortality for approxi- mately one hour and thirty minutes last night at the Metropolitan Opera House, for the most exacting listener surely must admit that the choir of St. Olaf College, during the moments they are intoning their music, can only have been recruited from the angelic host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mister's Cuffs | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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