Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When John Allan Sullivan, 53, president of the Red-led Canadian Seamen's Union, was bedded by a heart attack a few months ago, he had some time to think about his politics and his job. What he thought made him so mad that last week "Pat" Sullivan walked right out of the C.S.U. and slammed the door. The slam was heard all over Canada...
When Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen described the devil to his radio audience (TIME, Feb. 3), Unitarians were quick to note that Father Sheen's Satan sounded like nothing so much as a good Unitarian. Last week the Unitarians came out swinging. Hopping mad was jowlish, Netherlands-born Author Pierre van Paassen (Days of Our Years), a Unitarian minister (with no parish) since January...
...making good. In 1924, the papers were full of the Athletics' Paul Strand, who cost them $75,000 and didn't last the season; in 1940, it was the Athletics' Benny McCoy, now no longer in the major leagues; in 1941, it was the Cubs' "Mad Russian" Lou Novikoff, who has since gone back to the Pacific Coast League where he came from. There had also been publicized rookies who fared better: 1926's Mel Ott, 1937's Bobby Feller and 1936's Joe Di-Maggio. Drawls Clint Hartung: "I've made...
...dancing gets nothing better and settles for what it gets. When something original and interesting comes along, such as "It Might As Well Be Spring," it usually outsells all the others, but the tinkling of the each rolling in remains unheard by publishers and song-writers in their mad effort to turn out "For Sentimental Reasons" a hundred times a year. The deaf sport is in Tin Pan Alley's car, not the public...
...popularity of Heartaches was also doing a lot to restore the popularity of the Ted Weems band that recorded it. Weems had his big day in the mad '30s, took half his band into the merchant marine with him during the war, and is now making a comeback-without one of his earlier singing stars, Perry Como. Last week Weems & his band opened in a famous jive spot, the College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, the oldest nightclub in the U.S., where Jazzmen Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Gene Krupa made some of their loudest noises...