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...rickety, five-story house on Manhattan's West 46th Street, well within earshot of Broadway's clatter and chatter, Variety last week passed its 40th birthday. To celebrate it, pink-cheeked, bow-tied Editor Abel Green, 44, and his staff went to press with a bulging, green-covered, 324-page anniversary number that was five-sixths advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Muggs' Birthday | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

Young Brother Bob, 32, returned to the air after 14 months as a marine in the South Pacific. His sponsor: young Henry Ford II, who hoped that Bob, 'with his only faintly Bing-like crooning and corny chatter, could capitalize on Bing's absence, sell young America on postwar Ford convertible sport roadsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: In Bob, Out Bing | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...dilemma of the religious ascetic: how to gain spiritual strength by withdrawing from mankind and at the same time to minister to man's spiritual needs. Simeon's overardent followers tore at his clothes for souvenirs, played hob with his devotions by their importunate chatter. He escaped by mounting a pillar. Fellow monks fashioned for him a small but sturdy limestone column, then gradually increased the height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Between Heaven & Earth | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...York's liveliest and most unpredictable radio shows has been Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's Talk to the People. Every Sunday afternoon since 1941, over city-owned WNYC, the Little Flower has rasped and ricocheted his way through 30 minutes of the most unorthodox chatter on the air. He left sentences dangling, blithely mispronounced words, skipped syllables when he tantrum-well felt like it. He growled at chiselers, sang sarcastically at enemies, squeaked angrily at hecklers. He read the comics, with expression, and told housewives how to prepare oxtail ragout. All this made lively listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Little Flower to ABC | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...Point plebe did next to nothing to Doc's impish, hillbillyish charm. He still managed to have fun. When he laughed, his mouth spread as wide as an oven door. He had a drawl that could pass for Amos & Andy's Kingfish, and an easy line of chatter about his important "social contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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