Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fired for "utter incompetence" by Lord Northcliffe when George Lansbury took him on the Herald at $25 a week in 1912. In the great days of the Herald his savage satires on British complacency won him fame if not money; his "Sentenced to Life" and "The Vampire" were reprinted far & wide. Opposed to the War, he nevertheless refused to attack England while it lasted. A year of frontline duty and two-wounds deepened his cynicism; in 1920 he abandoned England and returned to Australia. Ten years later he exhibited a series of brilliantly bitter etchings in Manhattan (TIME...
...Whitehall Letter concentrates on interpreting foreign news, has good sources of information, is pretty accurate. Published anonymously, the snooty Whitehall Letter insists that its subscribers be properly introduced. The Far East Survey is published fortnightly by a onetime editor of Kobe's Japan Chronicle, A. Morgan Young, purports to give Britishers the inside dope on what goes on in China and Japan...
Novelist John Steinbeck, 37, whose best-selling Grapes of Wrath has passed the 155,000th mark, took his sore throat (from a recent tonsillectomy) and his badgered personality into seclusion in a California canyon, far from literary clubs and literary lion hunters. Said he: "I'm no public speaker, and I don't want...
Commercial broadcasters, who use only amplitude-modulating transmitters, have so far only nibbled at the Armstrong system. But the high-fidelity, interference-free programs from Alpine have created such a stir that General Electric Co. (licensed by Armstrong) started to make receiving sets which could be switched from commercial reception to frequency modulation. Last week these were put on sale in Newark, and this week they will be launched in New York. Price: $75 to $225. Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn...
...girl, 7, a boy, 9, who wants to be a flier). Most of his philippics he rasped into a dictaphone at crack of dawn before shaving and bathing. But last week Charles Grey Grey's dictaphone was muted. If he was for once muffled, however, he was far from subdued. Asked by newsmen if he would work with the Government, die-hard Editor Grey snorted: "Not with this government...