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...Howard Lindsay and puckish, 49-year-old Russel McKinley ("Buck") Crouse had three gold mines on Broadway: Strip for Action (which they wrote), Life With Father (which they adapted), Arsenic and Old Lace (which they produced). They had behind them three musicomedy successes (Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue, Hooray for What!). With no failures in six tries, they represent as big a money team as Broadway can boast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...Ballad Singers was Elie Siegmeister, a dark, merry, 33-year-old Brooklyn composer (May Day for orchestra, We Want the World for chorus, Hip Hip Hooray for NRA, an operetta). Elie Siegmeister talks with a touch of Brooklynese, teaches composition and piano for a living, bicycles to Coney Island for exercise. When he gets interested, he gets interested. When he got interested in balladry eleven years ago, he pored over thousands of songs in the Library of Congress, picked up many a ditty by word of mouth. He now knows 800. He trained his Ballad Singers-six professionals-to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing the U.S. Scene | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

Everybody should play Lacrosse. Telegrams to Senators. Statements from the men in public office. Hooray for Lacrosse. Hooray for the Senators who sent back telegrams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Life of the Sea | 2/4/1942 | See Source »

Dear Mrs. A.?hooray, hooray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Looking back, Michiganders had reason to hip-hip-hooray. Looking forward was not so rosy. Next week Michigan will play Pennsylvania, a powerhouse that bears a terrifying resemblance to Yost's point-a-minute men. In three games this season, George Munger's Quakers have amassed 147 points: 51-to-0 against Maryland, 50-to-7 against Yale, 46-to-28 against Princeton. What they will do when they meet Tom Harmon U is something Michiganders look forward to with mixed emotions. Francis X. Reagan, star of the Penn squad, has scored ten touchdowns in three games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Greater Than Grange | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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