Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Benny Goodman could claim technical victory. Box-office receipts were approximately equal ($24,000), but the Paramount, where Artie Shaw was playing, had a 99? top to the Shubert's 75?. Addicts of Shaw's exciting recordings of Begin the Beguine and Backbay Shuffle were disappointed by their idol's cold stage personality. Goodman's matchless trio and quartet and the smooth rendition of old favorites like One O'Clock Jump and Don't Be That Way won back wavering allegiance...
Died. Eugene J. Young, 64, cable editor of the New York Times; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1913 he predicted a general European war within a year, in March 1918 predicted the War would end before Christmas...
...motored 307's and other lines appear to have cooled in their enthusiasm for the biggest Douglas, reputedly because of high operation costs. Last week United Air Lines' crack Pilot Benny Howard was at Santa Monica getting acquainted with the DC-4, intended at week's end to take it out on U. A. L.'s system to see what could be done with...
Last week, American-Hawaiian and Luckenbach Steamship companies, largest and most potent in the conference, indignantly withdrew. They hoped that the U. S. Maritime Commission, having failed to persuade intercoastal lines to regulate their own rates, would end throat-cutting for all time by exerting its power to fix minimum tariffs, which dates back in 1933 but has never been exercised...
...humor, are few, but E. B. W. sometimes unbends to such old-fashioned jovialities as pointing out the difference between a major and a minor poet: "Any poem starting with 'And when' is a serious poem written by a major poet. . . . Any poem, on the other hand, ending with 'And how' comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long Scribner's article about the problem...