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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Singing Soldier | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Seven-Day Wonder | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From A to Z | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pious Service | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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