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...attention to the news and circulation departments, concentrated on editorials. Pictures of that era show him a young, round-faced man with heavy, horn-rimmed glasses, sitting by his desk and typewriter, where he pounded out editorials, single-spaced and with almost no margin. He was always smoking a cigar, and he threw the butts behind the radiator...
...Mention Opera. Hammerstein was born 49 years ago into a great theatrical tribe. His father, William, produced vaudeville; his Uncle Arthur produced musicals; his cousin Elaine became a screen star in silent days. But it was his grandfather, bearded, cigar-mauling, top-hatted Oscar I, the most spectacular impresario of his time, who made the name Hammerstein a near-synonym for Broadway. Oscar I was said to have occupied more newspaper space during his heyday than any other American except Theodore Roosevelt. A reckless and rambunctious man, Oscar I made millions in vaudeville and operetta, lost them on grand opera...
Rhythms for Hymns. Ruth St. Denis was a Belasco dancer in 1902 when she saw a figure of the Egyptian goddess Isis in a cigar-store window, and turned to oriental dancing. In 1914 she married Ted Shawn, a Methodist divinity student. They explored native American dancing, trained such successors as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman...
Like a farmer surveying a sugar maple for the right place to cut for sap, Seattle's paunchy, cigar-smoking Promoter Arthur J. Ritchie watches the public with a veiled and contemplative eye. This week Art Ritchie was watching a big one, and the sap bucket was filling up fast. Art Ritchie's newest idea: why not band the nation's Japanese-haters together and put the whole business on a paying basis...
While big John Lewis and the soft-coal operators jousted in a cloud of cigar smoke, the nation's soft-coal miners went to the polls. They voted, under the Smith-Connally Act, on what John Lewis disdainfully called a trick question: "Do you wish to permit an interruption of war production in wartime as a result of this dispute?" Their answer: yes, 208,797; no, 25,158. John Lewis could now legally shut down the mines...