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...newest and lustiest youngsters in the industrial nursery is network radio. There are plenty of observers who would not look upon it in its 13th year and find the mark of genius. But last week, as the industry totted up its fall bookings, added the spring's and summer's and estimated income to year's end, nobody could deny that as a business proposition, radio was indeed a thriving youngster. It had come out of its second depression with more money than it entered it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Money for Minutes | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Last week the Administration's lustiest legal aides, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson and Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, joined a defense committee for their fellow-member of the liberal National Lawyers Guild, C.I.O. Attorney Edward Lamb of Toledo. Mr. Lamb faces disbarment proceedings because of allegedly unprofessional remarks in court in opposing an injunction against the United Shoe Workers of America. According to the committee: "Mr. Lamb's remarks may call for an expression of apology to the court. They must not be made the excuse for an attempt to invade fundamental liberties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Aiders Aid | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...vivid autobiography, published last week, proved that he could write even better on at least two other themes-his physical strength and his poetic talent. His muscle he traces to his pioneer ancestors, all over six feet, feudists, boozers, moonshiners, hard workers, preachers. Biggest and lustiest of these was Grandfather Mitch Stuart, who fought for the North because the Union recruiting station was nearer, who narrowly escaped hanging by his own men for killing a fellow soldier, fathered 19 children by two wives, died violently by ambush when he was past 80. As an old man, Grandpa Stuart scandalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uninhibited Poet | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Com-pany never considered Elektra a best seller. Yet when the opera was revived last week at the Met, a capacity audience, including silk hats and standees, gave it the lustiest ovation heard there in several seasons. Principal object of their applause: a dark, hefty Hungarian soprano. Rose Pauly. who heaved and panted through 15 curtain calls after her Metropolitan debut in the title role. Other objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Potent Pauly | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...comprises at least 60% of that delicacy now sold in the U. S. It is concocted in Philadelphia by Gum, Inc., which occupies five floors and the basement of a building on Woodland Avenue. The Blony process and Gum, Inc., are both creations of one of Philadelphia's lustiest characters, burly, brown-eyed Jacob Warren Bowman, whose business adventures have been many and remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bowman's Bubbles | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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