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When Easy Aces, radio's earliest and sharpest husband & wife program, finally went off the air in 1944, after 14^ years and some 2,400 broadcasts, Goodman and wife Jane decided to watch the ponies and take life easy for awhile. But within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter. When Kaye left for Hollywood, Ace quit again...
...documentary film, is a kind of cinematic Ode on the Death of a Hero. Its story is told through the voices and memories of mourners who watched Franklin Roosevelt's funeral cortege in Washington. Mainly the screen is occupied by mfovie portraits of the late President, from the earliest to the last that were made. Several digressions describe the big depression, the distastrous dust storms of the middle '303, the building of Norris Dam, etc. The most striking digression traces the U.S. campaign in Europe, from the invasion of Normandy to the German surrender, while the President...
...Museum of Science and Industry. After two weeks on the market, Tucker's $20,000,000 stock issue was about 80% subscribed. Designer Tucker, en route to Italy to negotiate a manufacturing tie-in with Isotta-Fraschini, said production would not get under way until January at the earliest. Nevertheless, fascinated by such features as the Cyclops headlight and the luggage compartment in the front, close to 3,000 spectators offered to place orders (tentative price...
...British Collector Stannard's dealer sticks to his story: that his portrait of Henry is the earliest authenticated one. The National Portrait Gallery sits firmly on the fence...
Stunts in Drottkvaet. With his alliterative, hit-and-thump verse Auden has returned to the earliest tradition of English poetry-Anglo-Saxon-for a terseness and toughness that his own poems have lacked since the '30s. Incidental stunts include a dream song in the style of Finnegans Wake and an eight-line Drottkvaet, a complex Scandinavian verse form. But The Age of Anxiety is the best knit of Auden's longer works; his Bright Ideas, which have always had a way of stealing the show, this time wait for their cues. For the first time, too, Auden...