Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother and an executive at the same time. He says it is nobody's g_ _ d_ _ _ business whether he is en gaged, as reported last spring, to Mrs. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, a beauteous Pittsburgh-born glamor girl whose legend starts from a convent and includes a Broadway chorus, luxurious homes in Paris and Southampton, sculp ture, breeding wire-haired dachshunds, life as an artist's wife (the late Gardner Hale, muralist) and the movies...
...chief cities, fell last week exceptionally heavy rains. Heaviest rainfall was in the highly industrialized area of Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto. One morning the Kita-machi Reservoir broke. A torrent swept down the city. Landslides slid into East Kobe's residential sections, threatened even neighboring Osaka. Kobe's Broadway, the Motomachi, was flooded with ten feet of water. In Kobe's main railway station water was five feet deep. The city's prison walls crumbled and 900 prisoners had to be moved. Toll: 311 dead. 400 missing, 60,000 homes flooded, $30,000,000 damage...
...real success dates from the day he got exclusive U. S. rights for 17 years on a moving picture-type of outdoor sign invented by Kurt Rosen berg of Austria-the electric animated cartoon. Although he has now eight ani mated "spectaculars" (as the trade calls them), on Broadway, his Old Gold display is by far the most ingenious and costliest ($27,000) of them all. Lit by 4,000 feet of neon tubing and 4,104 electric bulbs that flash off & on under photo-electric impulses, the advertisement, designed by Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs steadily for five minutes, automatically...
...candid cameraddict, Douglas Leigh used to tramp along Broadway taking pictures of possible sign locations. Then he would concoct novel advertising schemes, take his propositions to prospective clients. Soon his company, Douglas Leigh, Inc., became famous for such dis plays as its Kool cigarets penguin who winked 3,000 times an hour, its A. & P. coffeepot that emitted actual steam, and its Ballantine's Beer & Ale clown who pitched quoits. In five years the company has erected $1,000,000 worth of electric signs around Times Square, its assets have ballooned to $500,000, and its 28-year...
Till his 65th year, Philadelphia Author John T. McIntyre wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...