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...Hall of Art, buy some $2,000 worth of canvases a day. They are there because of an ex-druggist, ex-suntan-oil and alarm-clock promoter, ex-salesman of the kazoo-bazooka and the megazoo. The idea man is a 45-year-old, roly-poly, Russian-born go-getter named Max Pochapin...
...meantime the main New Jersey force for clean government, Governor Charles Edison, harried and hurried Mayor Hague. Danger was that the Governor might trot out his own candidate, and that man might be the best vote-getter in sight. The Mayor finally, reluctantly told reporters that Mr. Moore would not run, because of his health. (You could have knocked hale A. Harry over with an aspirin tablet when reporters told him he was ill.) As Moore was thus given the Jersey bounce. Governor Edison announced his support of Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, who, as secretary...
Sennets and Tuckets. Technically, a fanfare is a brief passage (from two to 25 seconds) for brasses, employed as an attention-getter for what follows. The Goossens fanfares, however, are more elaborate compositions, some scored for full orchestra, running as long as three minutes. Most of them explore themes suggested by their titles-Cowell's, for example, uses a Mexican air. Fanfare, a French word of possible Moorish derivation, is allied to the Elizabethan stage directions sennet (also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets...
...Manhattan-born Georgie was singing in a movie theater with Walter Winchell; at eleven he was part of Gus Edwards' kid troupe; as an adolescent he teamed with Eddie Cantor, his lifelong friend and butt. A big laugh-getter in his early 20s, in his late 20s he proved an even bigger tear-jerker in The Jazz Singer. His biggest success since then came this season on Broadway in Show Time...
Illinois's tall, rangy Senator Scott W. Lucas, not more than a 75% New Dealer. The Democrats' only successful vote-getter in the farm belt, Scott Lucas stock would rise if the G.O.P. nominee is from the Midwest...