Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Hugh Johnson--"He's pretty damned radical...
Salute to 1939 (Sun. 2 p.m. NBC-Red, Blue) by Kirsten Flagstad, Ezio Pinza, Walter Hampden, Eva Le Gallienne, Walter Damrosch, Olsen and Johnson, Larry Clinton's orchestra on a special two-hour Magic Key program...
OLSEN AND JOHNSON, WALTER HUSTON, TEDDY HART, SOPHIE TUCKER, HELEN CLAIRE, BILL GAXTON, VICTOR MOORE OR GLADYS COOPER. YOU LEFT YOUR MUFFLER IN MY OFFICE. WILL YOU PLEASE SEND...
...last year's opera season in Chicago was a stocky Livornese tenor named Galliano Masini. When he raised the roof in Tosca and La Gioconda (TIME, Dec. 20, 1937). General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera House heard about it, signed him up. Last week Tenor Masini's Manhattan debut packed the Metropolitan with an expectant throng. Singing his favorite part, Edgardo in Lucia, Masini failed to make quite as high a mark as he had in Chicago. Critics found him no Caruso but a younger, fresher, less-seasoned Giovanni Martinelli...
...jail with a suspended sentence as a reward for helping to untangle his own swindle. In the meantime he had gone to work as a stool pigeon for District Attorney Charles S. Whitman. He soon was engaged in German spy investigations under the name of William Johnson. As a side line he tried to get a man named Cohen a death sentence for murdering a chicken handler, Barnet Baff. But when an indictment against him for subornation of perjury in connection with the Cohen case was handed down, William Johnson disappeared. That...