Word: easts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year he was selling enough advertising to hire as editor one Jesse Zunser, a footloose free lancer whose candid comments on plays and films soon gave Naborhood Theatre Guide a small reputation among half-a-dozen similar guides. By 1934 Glankoff's little sheet had spread to the East Side, had a few hundred subscribers at $1 a year, had changed its name...
Purring over the Southern Pacific's tracks toward parched Humboldt River Canyon, some 250 miles east of Reno, one night last week rolled the super-streamliner City of San Francisco. With her 17 sleek, buff cars, well-stocked bars, roomy lounges, the $2,000,000 train (owned jointly by Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western) was the nearest thing to a night club on wheels in U. S. transport. It was 10:30 p. m. Some of the 149 passengers were abed in pastel-shaded roomettes, but the club car was still comfortably full...
Since scholarly Frenchman Hugues Panassié (Le Jazz Hot) went seeking the kingdom of swing in the U. S. (1938), other foreign pilgrims have followed him. Latest is a diminutive, 21-year-old Javanese named Harry Lim, editor in chief of the Batavia, Dutch East Indies magazine Swing (Officieel Orgaan van the Batavia Rhythm Club), circulation 800. Critic Lim, whose favorite band leader is Duke Ellington, visited Manhattan, listened reverently in hotspots, bought about 1,500 jazz records to take home with him. Critic Lim did not like jitterbugs. They seemed like irreverent, undignified drunkards. "If," said...
About $21,000,000 of U. S. Rubber's $168,103,594 of assets is invested in East Indian rubber plantations, which assures the company of 20% of its raw material (so long as the Japanese do not grab or blockade the East Indies), partial protection against inventory losses if rubber slumps, extra profits if rubber prices skyrocket...
...Dorothy G. Mills Howard, a 37-year-old widow, is a junior high-school teacher in East Orange, N. J. She spent seven years in what many an educator would consider a shocking waste of time: sitting in school yards and on curbstones listening to the impromptu songs of rope-skipping kids. Last week, having also collected songs from assistant eavesdroppers from coast to coast, Mrs. Howard was ready to publish her collection. Folk Jingles of American Children.* It is not for squeamish readers. Sample...