Word: buts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joe's air-conditioned Park Avenue office, said Picture Post's Hastings, "is equipped with a dictaphone, a telephone extension system which takes 20 incoming calls at the same time, and a brass spittoon. Joe has no use for the latter, but the utensil is traditional in every...
The fanfare was a trifle excessive. Many a musical has been fresher, cleverer, more original; several Cole Porter shows have had wittier lyrics, catchier tunes. But as a splendiferous version of regulation musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady is all there. Its costumes are gorgeous, its goings-on boisterous. Its...
In London last week Douglas Hastings admitted that in his two weeks' inspection he might have missed some aspects of a New Yorker's life. Said he: "New York is a hellish place to live, but it's the greatest sideshow on earth."
Reward last year for Joe Connolly's loyalty was a $65,000 job as general man ager of Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. But there was a catch in the job: Hearst's empire was tottering. Hearst was getting on and Joe Connolly was expected to get the empire...
Last fortnight, his health cracked at 44, Joe Connolly called it quits and resigned. To replace him, in came Gortatowsky. Gorty had started 33 years ago as an unpaid cub on the Atlanta Constitution. When Hearst's King Features summoned him 22 years later he was the Constitution'...