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...controlled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and turning out a major part of Hollywood's popular music, was reported ready to sell out to B. M. I. for $3,750,000. M. G. M. has long borne a grudge against ASCAP, holding that ASCAP should make the same vigilant checkup of music played in cinema houses that it does over the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: B. M. I. Expands | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...sons whom he calls his "seven assets." P. M. C. was highly alarmed about "importuning in the streets" from noon until dawn in the Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers were accosted by 35 women along a 120-yard stretch. In the same area about 100 males were "engaged in this vile business. In Piccadilly 22 men were loitering. Many of them were painted and powdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strip Strip Hooray | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...show how fit he felt after a physical checkup, Mormon Heber Jeddy Grant, 83-year-old president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, kicked up his knees right snappily as he left St. Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles, enthusiastically supported by his son-in-law Wallace F. Bennett and a nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Intelligence. Three days after her operation, little Alice was sucking lustily at her bottle. Her fontanel began to sink. Last week, when Dr. Scarff gave Alice a checkup, he found that her head had decreased a quarter of an inch in circumference, while her body had nearly doubled in size. She gurgled, tried to sit up alone and reach for his finger. "We're simply crazy about her now," cried beaming Mr. Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hydrocephalus | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Although the mistress of the house commented with suspicion on the fact that the bricks came from the CRIMSON'S back yard, and that the rag was stained with printers' ink, a through checkup in this vicinity proved that such suspicions were both unfounded and unneighborly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURSE-SNATCHER GETS HIS PURSE BY THROWING BRICKS | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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