Word: dog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imitate what occurs when you twist the dial very rapidly on a new radio--sounds silly as hell, but "Man With a New Radio" is still very funny-- as is "And the Angels Sing"--done in the best grand opera tradition . . . Ten years ago: Lobe, the dog, was the star attraction with the Horace Heidt orchestra . . . Sacramento, Cal.: The Superior Court held a Sacramento city ordinance prohibiting music of any kind after 11 p.m. unconstitutional! No local reference needed...
...Dog rail bonds, going at $2 and up, are unlikely to become worth 100 cents on the dollar with the best of war booms. But on the gamble that they would be worth something or that the Government might take over and pay 30-40? on the dollar, speculators dived in. The Dow-Jones average of rail bonds climbed 32.5%, the New Haven's defaulted 4½s of 1967 from 12 to 15⅞ (32.3%), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific's 55 of 1975 from...
Painted as if from an elevation (see cut) with little sky and no perspective, the prize picture showed a log cabin, a Negro couple in a buggy, a hunter and his dog, children drinking at a well, cats, chickens, livestock, a plow and a manure pile. Said Professor Faricy to complaining artists as he took his leave: "It is the finest piece of primitive art I have ever seen. If any riots start, you know where to find me." No riots followed, but Missouri fairgoers stood in line to gape at Mrs. Lewis' work, stared at the painting that...
Died. Sidney Coe Howard, 48, topflight U. S. playwright (The Silver Cord, Alien Corn, Yellow Jack), cinemadapter (Bull Dog Drummond, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), son-in-law of Conductor Walter Damrosch; when a tractor he was cranking lurched forward, pinned and crushed him against a garage wall; on his 700-acre farm near Tyringham, Mass. Born in Oakland, Calif, (where three brothers still live), Sidney Howard used to say that he "grew up in a mess of books . . . fumbled around for some kind of artistic expression." His fumbling took him to the University of California (where he wrote plays), to George Pierce...
...eager as a dog on the scent, the professor returned to Harvard, wrote in the Alumni Bulletin that if any generous alumnus provided him with a suitable boat, he would be glad to pilot the donor over Columbus' whole route. Alumni and three foundations soon gave him a boat, sails, oils, wines, a surgical kit, heraldic designs and flags. When he sailed this week in his Capitana (named for the flagship of Columbus' third voyage), he had a few items that Columbus lacked: an auxiliary Diesel engine, a direction finder, a two-way radio set. Professor Morison headed...