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...McGrady, slim, dapper and energetic, Jersey City-born and South Boston-bred, has had a long career on the inside of both labor and politics. Although he looks like a man in his forties, he was already 22 years old when he got a job as a pressman on the Boston Herald 42 years ago. A good backslapper and able talker, he rose to head the local union, was spotted by George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union, who picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted...
...Francisco opening a dapper Italian mounted the conductor's stand proud as Punch, not that he is a great conductor, or that anyone has ever called him one, but because he, Gaetano Merola, could rightfully claim credit for making San Francisco's opera thrive. For his first season (1923) there was not even an adequate stage. Quick to gamble, he spent $20,000 fixing up the old Auditorium, began importing high-priced singers. When that first season ended Impresario Merola went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But San Franciscans had liked his performances, wanted more, formed...
...generally, we are for Roosevelt for the same reason we think we would have been for Jefferson or Jackson or Lincoln had we lived in their day." Since providing President Roosevelt with a take-off for his famed "breathing spell" announcement (TIME, Sept. 16, 1935). Scripps-Howard's dapper little Publisher Roy W. Howard has kept out of the political spotlight. Last week he was having a breathing spell from...
...four positive personalities in it. To exploit to the full the talents of William Powell, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, and Myrna Loy, and make those four stars revolve in concentric orbits, some kind of story had to be concocted including, in the above order, a combination of masculinity and dapper suavity, an untamed creature inducing and abounding in excessive primitive passion, a dim-witted but competent piece of virility, and a chilly aristocrat who's a warm little girl after...
Into town to take charge of the Commercial Appeal went dapper, able little John Harvey Sorrells. Scripps-Howard executive editor and troubleshooter, whose first newspaper job was as a Commercial Appeal carrier...