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...business but radio the loss of a million and a half account would be a crusher, but to NBC it was just an unhappy horse trade. NBC lost Amos 'n' Andy, but promptly picked off the Robert Benchley-Artie Shaw Old Gold show, a Sunday night half-hour that was bringing CBS $10,830 weekly. This becomes an NBC show beginning...
Notes between the notes: Truly magnificent swing criticism is advanced in a mildly insane article by Robert Benchley in the February issue of Listener's Digest entitled, "Swing: It Origin and Development." Sample quote: "I feel particularly fitted to discuss swing music, because I can't carry a tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James...
...keep himself from tossing about in the throes of sleep and scrambling the egg ? To what does TIME attribute this astonishing muscular control? From all appearances it would seem that Mr. Ryder is better fitted to show the public "How to Sleep" than Robert Benchley...
...courage and discerned a lesson in his life: "You could not know Bob Hallowell without realizing the terrible human importance of the revolution. ... It means the release of human capacities that cannot function in the world we have now." Shocked and reminded, other devoted old friends such as Robert Benchley, Bruce Bliven, Walter Lippmann and Stark Young, sponsored an exhibition this week at the Reinhardt Galleries...
...require suppressors on all razors, for such regimentation is obviously impossible. Better to suppress the shavers themselves. Careful consideration, however, leads but to one conclusion; owners of electric razors must to all costs read their daily radio programs with great care. Let them learn when Paderewski, Artie Shaw, Bob Benchley, Bea Wain, Information Please, and other necessities of life are due; ten let them rap the daily harvest accordingly...