Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny bedroom under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, a stuffy, ten-foot-square cell containing only a bed, table, chair and a burly Storm Trooper who never leaves the room. "He has altered in appearance terribly. He is emaciated. His eyes are haggard. They will not let him have a razor so he has grown a tangled beard. He is obsessed with a terrible fear that he will lose his mind. He is convinced that he will never leave his prison alive...
...Hollywood: empire building in the north of India. Largely made on location near Chitral, Drums contains some of the most dazzling sequences ever recorded in Technicolor, but Director Zoltan Korda-wiser than many of his U. S. colleagues when confronted with this medium for the first time-refused to let it get out of hand. Consequently, his picture marches with considerably more vigor than anything his brother Alexander Korda's London Film Productions has made since The Private Life of Henry VIII, rates as the No. 1 British export of the year...
...cast about for ways to institute a pay cut on the Post, without colliding with A.F. of L. unions in its mechanical departments, or the American Newspaper Guild, whose contract with the Post was the first to be signed in Manhattan. By persuading the A.F. of L. unions to let their men treat the matter as individuals rather than as unionists, Publisher Stern got a "10% "kickback" out of 97% of the Post's mechanical employes.* They agreed to lend the Post 10% of their pay checks indefinitely, the loans to be repaid at 2% interest when...
Modern jai alai, as popularized by the Cubans,* is played on a concrete court about half the length of a football field, marked off to let the speeding players readily know where they are and to determine the boundaries of a fair serve (between the fault and pass line)-see diagram. Three walls are of concrete, the fourth is of wire netting to protect the spectators from a ball that travels 100 miles an hour. Object of the game is to scoop the ball (either in the air or on first bounce) as it bounds off the front wall...
...Chicago Tribune's WGN gave the network its president, Wilbert E. Macfarlane. Thirty years a newspaperman, President Macfarlane is a rugged individualist of broadcasting. As advertising manager of the Tribune in 1927, he became WGN's executive head, refused to let networks dominate his station's policies. The other original partner station, WOR, gave MBS its board chairman, Alfred Justin McCosker. Breezy, back-slapping Chairman McCosker is a radio veteran among network heads. He joined WOR in 1923, became the station's director and general manager in 1926, president in 1933. A onetime newspaperman, Chairman McCosker...