Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With coverage of the morning and evening fields, and with radio stations WHK and WAIU (Columbus) under partial control of the Plain Dealer, Forest City Publishing Co. was expected to have a sound story to sell to advertisers. Further to its advantage is the fact that both journals are controlled by socialite families, no mean business factor in Cleveland. Cleveland's only other newspaper is the Scripps-Howard Press. The Plain Dealer has no competition in the morning field...
...Columbus," Professor Morison, Harvard...
...Catalan could remember. By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches. Leather-faced fishermen came up from Tarragona. All night long shouting crowds surged up & down under the huge plane trees of the ramblas to rigadoon round the statue of Christopher Columbus and back up the hill again. From a thousand staffs fluttered the five-barred red-&-yellow Catalonian flag. Trucks of Shell Oil Co. were hailed with delight...
...famed Sanford White. He was born and still lives in Lawrence, L. I. For his ancestors was named the neighboring town of Hewlett. As architect he designed the Soldiers & Sailors monument in Albany, the Civil War Memorial in Philadelphia, the City Club of New York, the McKinley Memorial at Columbus, Ohio. As mural painter he has just completed four large historical panels for the Bronx County Building showing the history of Mayor McKee's bailiwick from its foundation by Patroon Jonas Bronck. As a stage designer he made the maquettes for the U. S. production of Rostand...
...revue (written by Ballyhoo magazine's editor, Norman Anthony) keeps its leering promise. Able Comedian Willie Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled to ze breem! Rewolt!'' There is a nudist sketch; a scene in Cinemactress "Margreta Garbitch's" Hollywood training quarters; a song called "Love, Nuts and Noodles" in which Nina Mae McKinney does...