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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MARK H. JORDAN Lieutenant (C.E.C.), U.S.N. Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

After a very successful premiere in Boston's Jordan Hall last week, the opera "The Second Hurricane," by Aaron Copland, will be presented in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8:30 o'clock, under the sponsorship of the Lowell House Music Society and under the direction of Leonard Bernstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House Music Society Sponsors "Second Hurricane" | 6/5/1942 | See Source »

...general excellence of Alexander Hall's "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" automatically handicaps his subsequent productions. But judged by its cofeature, "Bed Time Story" rates as an above average comedy. Frederick March, in the role of Lucius Drake, a Broadway playwright, gives a well-rounded performance that pleases everyone except Jane, the first lady of his public and private life. Jane, played by Loretta Young, can't stand being double-crossed for her own good, divorces Lucius, and marries a banker. The highlight of the picture concerns Lucius' efforts at appeasement, in which he sends everything from plumbers to chicken dinners...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 6/3/1942 | See Source »

Wings Over Jordan (Wings Over Jordan choir conducted by Worth Kramer; Columbia; 8 sides). Surging, vibrant singing of eight spirituals without benefit of printed arrangements, forming the first recordings of the Cleveland Negro choir noted for its CBS Sunday broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

This strike could have affected thousands of families around Greater Boston, yet not a word about it was printed in the Boston, Press. The metropolitan papers studiously kept all news of the dispute out of their columns in deference to the fat advertising contracts which Jordan Marsh annually gives them. They shifted control of their columns from the managing editor to the boys who sell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pressure on the Press | 5/12/1942 | See Source »

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