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Smooth-talking Bill Pardridge hopes to see 10,000 subscribers before the year is out, will now take ads (the first issue was adless). Barred from advertising: aviation companies. Reason: to head off any talk that Air Affairs has an ax to grind. But every large airline except TWA helped with early contributions of $100 and up, and seven have agreed to plug the magazine with copies in every plane. Promoter Pardridge is already talking about moving Air Affairs from his fifth-floor walkup flat & office in Washington, D.C. Next month he will ask his hand-picked board of trustees...
...rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the wall. And there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat ax in his hand and was screaming for blood...
...along Radio Row, distinguished necks were bared to the ax. The networks' fall schedules were almost filled in. Yet nobody had met the ante for such top-dollar talent as Nelson Eddy, Hildegarde, Rudy Vallee, and the wisemen on Information Please. Instead, low-priced shows had been snapped up. The reason: radio advertisers had pared their budgets to the bone (TIME...
Another Russian had been taking a good close look at the U.S. But Tamara Chernashova, unlike her more famous and less candid countryman, Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg (TIME, July 8), had no ax to grind...
Mental Cruelty. In Phoenix, Ariz., Frank Perkins sued for divorce, told the judge: "Well, your honor, on five occasions she hit me over the head with an ax. . . . If this keeps up, somebody's going to get hurt." Divorce granted...