Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Violent and anarchic the life of Charleston Negroes may be, and fierce and swelling the power of mother love. But the Heywards, using an old sucked orange of a plot, have squashed the pulp all over the stage. Only the mildness of Charleston's climate keeps Hagar from doing another Eliza crossing...
...thriller Gang Busters this week rounds out a three-year career in the service of law & order and Palmolive Shave Cream. It will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man hunts with alarms for important fugitives from justice, and listeners have tipped off the cops to 110 wanted men, including Kidnappers Percy ("Angel Face") Geary and Thomas H. Robinson Jr., Karpis gang Trigger Man Larry...
...intestines are placed in a sterilized mortar with a few drops of glycerin and carbolic acid (to assure sterility), and Dr. Weigl pounds the mess with a sterilized pestle. Result: one dose of immunizing typhus vaccine. At this rate, said Marianne, Professor Weigl makes less than one hundred life-saving doses a year...
...Wall Street brokerage house of Jacquelin & De Coppet, greatly worried over what might happen to stock prices in the event of Franklin Roosevelt's death, took out in England a ?60,000 insurance policy on his life. It then deducted the premium, $23,102, from its 1933 income tax return as a business expense. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue disallowed it. So, last week, did the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, declaring the case "wholly unique in the business history of this country...
Walker Evans, 35, and Edward Weston, 52, were born in St. Louis and Highland Park, Ill., respectively, but Evans went east and Weston went west. Like most artists of his generation, Evans got as far east as Paris. He returned to photograph life on the eastern seaboard with solitary detachment, a refined eye and a sharp sense of history. Meanwhile, Weston was in business as a portrait photographer in Glendale, San Francisco and finally in Carmel, California. Among professionals his off-hour studies of dunes, shells and vegetables became noted for their miraculous clarity. In 1936 he won the first...