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...radio stations. It boasts an impressive list of beats, such as the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. In 1936, it began serving newspapers, today sells to 46, including the London Daily Telegraph, the Portland Oregonian, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Johannesburg (South Africa) Daily Express. Its 20-hour-a-day teletype circuit distributes 40,000 words of spot news. An editorial staff of 40 works in its main office in a Manhattan penthouse. Its 34 U. S. and foreign bureaus are operated by 132 editorial workers...
...part of the work being undertaken during a field trip for students in the bureau, which began Sunday and will continue until Friday, November 5. By no means a joy ride, according to Maxwell Halsey, assistant director of the Bureau, the trip wil mean 13-hour-a-day work for the students. "When they come back it'll take 'em two or three days to recover!" predicted Mr. Halsey grimly...
...change in Dietrich was astounding, that which took place in von Sternberg, though less evident, is no less interesting. The girl whom he had turned in record time into a world celebrity had paradoxically trebled his own fame. She was a perfect Trilby for his staccato, 14-hour-a-day Svengali. Impatient of routine, abrupt with strangers and remote with studio officials, Dietrich would tolerate the most brutal type of public correction from von Sternberg. It was common enough for her to go through a scene 15 or 16 times before he was satisfied with it. None of this seemed...
Originally cast as Cigarette in Under Two Flags, she wilted under 16-hour-a-day shifts, began to carry a clinical thermometer around in her mouth, produce it showing readings of 105°. She was hospitalized, replaced by Claudette Colbert. Planned for her is a revival of Seventh Heaven...
...Merrily last week did Pepperell Mills of Lindale, Ga. report 24 hour-a-day operations, 500 added workers on its payroll...