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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atlantic City's publicity-hungry Chamber of Commerce last week augmented its fat press clipping albums by staging a football game to which spectators were decorously invited to wear evening clothes. On a full-sized football field in Atlantic City's tremendous Convention Hall, Pennsylvania Military College managed to score a field goal, beat the University of Delaware 3-to-0 in the season's only in door collegiate football game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football in Evening Dress | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Much against advice of wiseacres, who said he would lose his shirt. Ira Arthur Hirschmann, music-loving vice president of Manhattan's Saks-Fifth Avenue department store, last year founded the New Friends of Music. Its purpose: to give Manhattanites the very best in chamber music, played by the very best artists (TIME, Nov. 16). Before selling a ticket for his series of 16 Sunday concerts, Mr. Hirschmann boldly took on some $9,000 worth of contracts with artists and Town Hall. The season over, astute Friend of Music Hirschmann could grin at calamity-howlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music's New Friends | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...before, applause is frowned upon and there is no chatty intermission. Devout subscribers will hear nothing but Mozart, Schubert, Schumann. For the first time, all the music will be recorded by RCA Victor; some of it in advance. Friend of Music Hirschmann's thesis- that chamber music is too rarely played in public, too hard to get on discs-had scored another point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music's New Friends | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...matter of fact," says Dr. Hooton, "if I were asked in what occupations the United States indubitably leads the world, I should reply without hesitation, dentistry and plumbing." Yet in the mouth of civilized man he finds a chamber of horrors which shows perfectly well which way human evolution is going. Caries, pyorrhea and malocclusion (failure of upper and lower teeth to engage properly) are rare among savages-"at least until the savage comes in contact with civilization, missionaries, canned foods, groceries and candy.... In my opinion there is one and only one course of action which will check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hooton's Horrors | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...holds the distinction of having been the first U. S. automobile editor (on the New York Mail in 1902). Then he became sales-manager of the long-extinct U. S. Motor Co. and in 1913 took over the management of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, then called the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Thus occupied ever since, he has seen the A. M. A. grow into one of the nation's most potent trade groups. One of Al Reeves's jobs as A. M. A. vice president and general manager is running the annual U. S. Automobile Show. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fashions of 1938 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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