Word: bakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LAURANCE C. BAKER...
...Scophony Ltd., owners of a new process for projecting television pictures as though they were films. The method of freeing the picture from the limitations of the cathode tube is Scophony's secret, but they have a screen going into London's new Monseigneur News Theatre in Baker Street. Scophony's Director Solomon Sagall has promised full-sized cinema screen television for all theatres of England's Odeon Circuit by year's end. Test showings of Scophony projections have excited televisionists...
...Green's pleasure was the failure of C. I. O. co-Founder & Secretary Charles P. Howard to be re-elected president of the potent International Typographical Union. The printers by a 3-2 vote replaced C. I. O. man Howard by their Vice President Claude M. Baker, of San Francisco. Their act as labor men knew was, however, more a repudiation of Mr. Howard than of C. I. O. For in his twelve years as head of I. T. U., his two-and-a-half years of personal affiliation with C. I. O., aggressive President Howard made many...
YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN-Dorothy Baker-Houghton Mifflin...
...Author Baker frankly confesses, her job is too much for her. The music that Rick Martin made died with him; it was improvised, unwritten, spontaneous and "one of these days even his records will be played out." To approximate that music in prose, she gives accounts of where and when it was played and how Rick Martin fell when he played it-but since what he felt was principally a moment of inspiration and self-forgetfulness, her accounts might apply as well to bad jazz as to good. Young Man with a Horn sounds right when Author Baker writes about...