Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because radio transcriptions, records and sound tracks make their continuous work unnecessary, 11,000 musicians are permanently unemployed and many more suffer, but not in silence, sporadic layoffs. Long an opponent of "canned" music, author of the first ban on recordings without union sanction was James C. Petrillo, surly boss of the Chicago branch of the American Federation of Musicians. Petrillo's ban lost Chicago musicians $125,000 worth of record and radio dates, but it made Petrillo a Labor hero (TIME, Jan. 4). That he would urge national adoption of the record ban was a foregone conclusion...
...Author-In Palestine during the World War, Vaughan Wilkins, son of a slum parson, lived in a dugout reputed to have been shared by Samson & Delilah. And So-Victoria, his first novel, was written in his father-in-law's historic house in Wales, in a London house once occupied by Samuel Pepys, on a freighter during a bad storm, and in Goliad, Texas, where relatives live. At 23 the editor of a London tabloid, he retired from newspaper work after blowing up as assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. A great-grandfather designed London...
...foregoing verse is a sample of the 50 "charades" contained in this second book of poems by the famed, well-beloved 77-year-old senior master of The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. The whole word, obtained by guessing the first, second and third syllables, is "nightingale," but the sly author makes his readers work even harder to be sure of this. His 50 answers at the back of the book are written in cryptograms, and "nightingale" reads ezulnzeuowr...
...CULPA-Louis-Ferdinand Celine- Little, Brown ($2). By the author of the sensational Journey to the End of the Night, a long essay on the Hungarian doc^ tor Semmelweis, martyr to modern antisepsis, and a brief essay on the Soviet Union, the latter breaking all existing records for anti-Communist invective...
FREUD, GOETHE, WAGNER - Thomas Mann-Knopf ($2). Expanded versions of three lectures delivered by the author on his recent whirlwind anti-Nazi crusade in New York (TIME...