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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Levitch) were the talk of the town. Last week, almost three years later, Martin & Lewis were the talk of show business. At Manhattan's copious Copacabana, the team had just smashed an eight-year house record for receipts-and in the depth of a general nightclub depression. The first Martin & Lewis movie, My Friend Irma, in which they have supporting roles, would be shown this fall in first-run houses. NBC, which had just handed them a Sunday night radio hot spot (6:307 p.m., E.D.T.), was dishing out over $10,000 a week to break them into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Talk of Show Business | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

From a quiet office in Manhattan, Engineer George Q. Herrick, of the Voice of America, was fighting a furious electronic battle last week for Russia's radio audience. His weapons were powerful transmitters spotted through the northern hemisphere. His projectiles were radio waves. Herrick chalked up a victory whenever the Voice's broadcasts broke through Soviet jamming to reach Russian ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air-Wave Battle | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Critics and collectors disagree with her. Isabel Bishop's paintings hang in more than a dozen of the country's top museums; when a Manhattan gallery last week staged her first show of oils in ten years, it had to borrow almost half of the show from previous buyers. A painstaking worker, Bishop finishes only four or five paintings a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: They Drink & Fly Away | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...glazes on pressed-wood panels, they all had the vague shimmer of reflections in a forest pool. Their subject was almost invariably girls, mainly girls who spend their nights in Brooklyn and Queens rooming houses and their days working in the garment lofts, offices and novelty factories around Manhattan's Union Square, where Bishop has her studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: They Drink & Fly Away | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Last week, the commission, chairmanned by Roy E. Larsen, president of TIME Inc.,† told where it hoped to begin. From its headquarters in Manhattan, it will send out investigators for pilot studies of just what community groups are doing to improve their schools. It will also act as a clearinghouse for good & bad news about U.S. public education, citing local groups for a good job wherever possible, and spotlighting problem areas. To make sure that the commission stays above all special interests, it will accept only members "not professionally identified with education, religion, or politics." As the commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: By & For the Public | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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