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...every Friday night at 8:30 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time), the same half-hour and the same Columbia coast-to-coast network over which TIME has marched since March 1931. Direction will be as hereto fore, under Arthur Pryor Jr.. son of the bandmaster, program conductor for Bat ten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. With it will come music by the same band, under able young Howard Barlow...
Next to Henry and Edsel Ford, the Czechoslovak family of Bat'a (pro- nounced Bahtya) continue to be the world's most vigorous "Fordizers." Fifty-seven years ago the spouse of a poor cobbler in Zlin bore Thomas Bat'a. In a heroic life of mechanized striving he made Zlin the "Shoe Capital" of Europe. Because, like Henry Ford, he profoundly mistrusted financiers, Thomas Bat'a took fanatical care to remain the First Working Partner in a partnership which embraced all his employes. No one outside the partnership may own Bat'a stock. In Zlin...
This year the first Bat'a-owned shoe store was opened in Shanghai with a challenge: "We propose to establish the first up-to-date chain store system ever attempted in China." Open or opening shortly are two Bat'a stores in Nanking, two in Foochow, two in Ningpo, one each in Chefoo. Soochow and Weihaiwei. Last week strapping, cleft-chinned Jan Bat'a could point to 50 chain stores operating in Java, 15 in the Straits Settlements, three in Saigon. Deliberately, according to U. S. consular reports, these stores are going after "not the trade...
...baseball history. Babe Ruth now can be sure of performing his homerun specialty only on great occasions. Such an occasion presented itself last week in Chicago where all-star teams representing the National and American Leagues played what was advertised as "The Game of the Century." Ruth came to bat in the third inning. Pitcher Hallahan of the St. Louis Cardinals, wild in the second inning when the American League scored its first run. had already given Detroit's Gehringer a base on balls. Now, pitching to Ruth, he made the mistake of trying to whip a strike across...
...aspirin?" he met Marie Dressier at a party, regaled her with his musical arrangement of President & Mrs. Harding receiving the children for the annual eggroll on the White House lawn at Easter. Marie Dressier put him on a benefit performance bill. Presently he was appearing at the Bat Club in London where Tallulah Bankhead and the Prince of Wales were equally enthusiastic...