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...continuous entertainment policy is upheld by an alternate group under the baton of Sherman Freeman, also a tenor-man and Newton alumnus. Upon all too rare occasions a gal named Shirley Mhore sits in on vocals and makes you forget all about people named Lena Horne or Billie Holliday. The grapevine has it that in a few weeks Shirley will go on the payroll. That would really be a break for jazz in Boston...

Author: By Charles Kallman, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 10/23/1945 | See Source »

Deanna hasn't successfully graduated from the teen-age singing sensation stage, with the possible exception of "The Amazing Mrs. Holliday." And from Mrs. Holliday to Christmas Holiday, the proof is fairly conclusive that perhaps the wistful and appealing warbler should stop trying to graduate, turn over a new leaf, and start warbling all over again. Or perhaps you like the wistful type--and maybe you like Kelly's broad Irish smile. In any event, they don't belong in a psychological chiller-diller-thriller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 9/12/1944 | See Source »

...members include George J. O'Brien, treasurer of Standard Oil Company of California; Roy Bronson, attorney for Aluminum Company of America; Charles S. Howard Jr., son of Seabiscuit's owner; Tom Bacon, for whose grandfather the University of California's Bacon Hall is named; Bob Holliday, ex-publisher of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horsy Posses | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Under blunt Police Superintendent Louis F. Guerre, State troopers tramped into the office of David M. Ellison, Attorney General. Capt. J. A. Holliday called out his militia, saying "it was nothing but a drill." By these martial hints, Ellison learned he was no longer Attorney General. Governor Long had decided after four months that Ellison had taken his oath of office illegally. Also ousted was the first assistant, bald, old Kingfish-worshipping James O'Connor. Next day Ellison, with a straight face, remarked that Long had done him a "favor," withdrew from the January 16 primary as opposition candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Political Algebra | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...dominates both W. N. U. and A. P. A. qualifies as No. 1 in the rural press. Last week it seemed that the man would be 57-year-old John Holliday Perry. Already president of A. P. A., which at one time competed with W. N. U. in selling feature boiler plate, Mr. Perry has long sought control of W. N. U. Two years ago, he barely missed it when W. N. U. called off a plan to throw itself into 77-B bankruptcy to scale down interest payments (TIME, April 27, 1936). Last month, he bought enough voting trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rural Titan | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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