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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concertgoers absorb more symphonic music than any others in the world. The extent of this absorption was charted last week in a statistic-studded volume by Margaret Grant &Herman S. Hettinger (of the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania) with the help of the Carnegie Corporation (America's Symphony Orchestras-Norton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U. S. Orchestras | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

When Yaleman Colgate kicked himself upstairs to the chairmanship two years ago, he turned the presidency over to big, hard-working Edward Herman Little. A North Carolina farmer boy, Soapman Little was doing fine as Colgate's Memphis district manager when tuberculosis sent him to Denver in 1911. Three years later he came back, cured, went to work for Caleb Johnson, rode out the mergers, took over Palmolive-Peet's foreign division and boomed it. In his two years as president he has stepped up his firm's gross profit from .3% to 10% of sales. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Schoolgirl Complexion | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...masked informer point out that as of April 3, 1939, Herman Shumlin was the only Broadway producer advertising in TIME? If so, what deduction was drawn and/or quartered, what brands burned in whose hides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...cocker spaniel. The terrier, four-year-old Nornay Saddler owned by James M. Austin of Old Westbury, L. I., had been judged best-in-show at 51 U.S. shows, a record no dog has ever approached within sniffing distance. The cocker, four-year-old My Own Brucie owned by Herman Mellenthin of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., boasted no such record but was judged best-in-show (over 4,456 rivals) at the Morris & Essex last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cocker | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...responsible for developing the American cocker (the English cocker is a slightly different type) to its present state of near-perfection is My Own Brucie's owner, 52-year-old Herman Mellenthin. A lover of cocker spaniels since 1895, when they were larger and lazier. Breeder Mellenthin established a kennel in Milwaukee 33 years ago, moved it to Poughkeepsie five years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cocker | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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