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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart Publisher Simon persuaded Mr. Satterlee to write a book showing people how to fill out their income tax returns. The 1936 and 1937 versions of Your Income Tax sold 80,000 copies. There was no 1938 edition. Last week Simon & Schuster came out with a brand-new edition in a glaring yellow cover bearing the wily subtitle, How to Keep it Down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bugaboos Laid | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...past eight years at Manhattan's Metropolitan, pert French soprano Lily Pons has practically had a monopoly on old-fashioned Latin coloratura warbling. Last week, when Coloratura Pons hurried off to Palm Beach, Fla. to nurse a sudden cold, General Manager Edward Johnson shoved a brand-new Italian soprano, Lina Aimaro, into her part in Lucia di Lammermoor. A packjammed audience went to hear her, found Soprano Aimaro an earnest young Model T coloratura, with good top notes and a tendency to stall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Program Notes | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Yorkers really deserved to win Saturday night's game. They were playing a very smart brand of hockey throughout, and they capitalized on every break in heads-up fashion, Hodder's charges, on the other hand, were somewhat off form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOPMEN AND HOCKEY TEAM FIGHT TWO LOSING BATTLES | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...wrote home to his friend, Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending him the manuscript of a brand-new Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hungarian Rhapsody | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Hormel & Co., still in the van of the parade, last week came out with something brand-new, a "joint earnings plan." During the current fiscal year (ending October 1939) the total of all profits and wages of Hormers Austin plant will be reckoned up. At year's end this theoretical kitty will go 80% to employes, 20% to stockholders. If the employes' 80% fails to cover the pay they have already received, they will get no more. If it more than covers their pay, the surplus will be divided 80-20 until the workers have been given four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAGES: One-Year Plans | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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