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...Mighty I AM Presence" (a psycho-religious cult abjuring alcohol, narcotics, tobacco, onions, garlic); from a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Grey-haired, pink-tied, white-suited Messenger Ballard owned and drove, with Wife Edna and Son Donald, four high-priced, canary-yellow automobiles, one with a concert harp strung on behind, spreading through the U. S. the doctrine of I AMery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Early in January, Red is assembling this unit and at this writing it seems definite that the suave and soft arrangements of Eddie Sauter will be back with him and also the swell swing harp of Casper Reardon. That, ladies and gentlemen, is New Year's news what...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

Music, like sport, can be a deadly earnest career, or something that people do just for fun. For professionals, many books have been written. But the man who just likes to sing in the bathtub or twang a lick on the jew's-harp has never had a book to tell him where to go from there. Such a book was published last week by long-nosed "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music For Fun | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...children's names) of nearly every person in Kentucky of voting age-not just because it's good political business, but because he likes to know. To him speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play his own tune on the great harp of an audience. And a harp is what his audience becomes. So infectious is his gifted gab that the soberest observers have found themselves swaying to the roll of it, while the Chandler fans yell "Tell it, Happy boy! Oh, tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Happy Man | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...this short-circuit of Lincoln legend, the cinemaudience meets Ann Rutledge in the first five minutes, pauses at her gravestone five minutes later. Abe Lincoln rides into Springfield from New Salem in frock coat and stovepipe on a mule, cuts his own hair, thrums a jews-harp, halts a lynching of his first clients with the argument that the mob is trying to do him out of his first retainer. He wins a tug-of-war against the Hog Wallow boys by hitching the anchor loop of the rope to a wagon, dances with Mary Todd, generally establishes himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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