Word: downe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buenos Aires matrons sighed with nostalgic rapture. Not in eight years had their radios brought them the rich, persuasive tenor of José Mojica, onetime idol of Latin women up & down the hemisphere. But last week he was back once again, on a program sponsored by a B.A. department store...
But Boston Symphony President Henry B. Cabot and his 14 fellow trustees had been "keeping our eyes open for conductors for a long time." Boston proceeded "on the strange assumption," says blunt, silver-spectacled Harry Cabot, "that they were all available." The man they were seeking would be "the boss...
For making such a gullible spectacle of itself, the U.S. press had only its own bad reporting to blame. A cursory check in Washington would have disclosed that Racey Jordan had been trying to peddle his story for nearly a month, and reputable news organizations had turned it down because...
Then Editor Seymour, whose two papers overflow with columnists (e.g., Drew Pearson, Winchell, Walter Lippmann, Mrs. Roosevelt et al.), got down to cases on Pearson-"vindictive, vicious, a soapboxer. But I'd say that he's a good policeman and digger." Of Westbrook Pegler: "[He] is not in...
To prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back...