Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's fastest blackamoor, Jesse Owens, with four Olympic crowns in his valise. With very little money in his pocket, Sprinter Owens made no secret of the fact that he was returning to the U. S. to cash in on his athletic reputation for all it was worth. Bug-eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just to take him on a personal tour. A Manhattan theatre was said to be clamoring for the dusky speedster...
...glamour headquarters: Hollywood. As evidence of Radio's Hollywood trend, admen pointed to a dozen important programs scheduled to be regularly broadcast from the cinema capital this season, in comparison with last season's four or five. With Radio thus definitely established in Hollywood, cinemactors gazed bug-eyed with joy at Variety's report that "[Radio] salaries of $10.000 and over for individual names for single performances may be paid," and that "over a 39-week season . . the lowest requirement for Holly-wood shows alone will be in excess of 1,000 names." Only croaking voices...
...will reign in London with powers delegated by the King. They start reigning next month when His Majesty & friends move into the flamboyantly modernistic French Château de I'Horizon at Juan-les-Pins which he has rented from oldtime Actress Maxine Elliott. Last week Britons viewed bug-eyed in their illustrated papers pictures of this Hollywood setting, complete with ''artificial moonlight" and a practical joke swimming chute. Fun is had when a guest sits down and lets go, only to discover too late that he is sliding 30 feet down on abrasive cement...
Britons read with bug-eyes last week that the secret Nazi fleet maneuvers had been observed and reported by a method which smacked of the British Intelligence Service and of smart Sir Samuel Hoare. As a young Intelligence officer in Tsarist Russia, ingenious Sam Hoare knew of the assassination of Rasputin so soon after it occurred that the Imperial Police investigated. It was ultimately necessary for the British Ambassador to assure Nicholas II that Sam positively had not had advance knowledge of the deed done by assassin Prince Felix Youssoupov and friends. Last week Augur (Vladimir Poliakoff) famed London special...
...bug-eyed crowd of Egyptians lined the quayside at Suez last week as the British cruiser Enterprise passed through. Several dozen dejected Ethiopians could be seen under the quarter-deck awning, but among them was not the bearded, tiny figure all eyes sought. Haile Selassie, Conquered Lion of Judah, was below decks with a secretary checking over box after box of gold bars, clinking Maria Theresa silver thalers...