Word: ares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observatory mathematicians today brought support to the statistics by which Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., believes he has shown that there are important periodic changes in the sun's radiation, predictably affecting the earth's weather.
In it, he tells how his recent sickness was due to the rotten hours, the long jumps on one nighters, the nervous tension that all musicians live under. He shows how the music business is rotten with commercialism. Booking offices, agents, song pluggers, and the big broadcasting chains all come...
Of course, the fact that the suits against him total over $100,000 would have nothing to do with it--or the suit that would probably have forced him to live up to his contract with another recording firm. His recent polemics against the people he plays for and the...
There is another small point. Shaw speaks of the ills of the industry that forced him to leave. These exist. But they weren't made to order for Arthur Shaw. Everyone in the business knows about them and allows for them. Shaw had been playing for enough years when he...
Bill Powell is back after a year's illness with his quizzical eyebrows, scotch and sodas, and gift for repartee quite intact. Unhappily, Dashfell Hammett's plot gives Mr. Powell somewhat less support than his hospital bed and consequently the film fails to live up to the previous Thin Man...