Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio messages-Germany calling all ships home but its submarines; Britain ordering a Mediterranean blockade; U. S. Navy telling its personnel the score. These and others appeared in the U. S. press, incurred no Federal crackdown. But one of them was also broadcast by at least one radio station, Manhattan's WMCA, and last week there was an official fuss, with apparently more bark than bite...
...crisis progressed, WMCA got a big hand from Manhattan columnists. One reported: "Several weeks ago the station hired an expert of naval code who stationed himself near the shortwave receiver of a local morning newspaper. As secret orders from shore to ship were flashed from England and Germany he quickly decoded them and rushed his findings to the microphone...
...shuffle-off-to-Buff alo is not what it used to be, but he can still plug a song. Last Christmas, parsimonious Showman Billy Rose, whose cabaret career is paved with old music-hall favorites hired for a song, hired old Joe to sing his old songs at Manhattan's rhinestony Diamond Horseshoe. For Joe Howard, the job was a welcome hitch along his comeback trail-which last week looked promising indeed...
...Manhattan nightspots, boaters, bustles and high-wheeler emotions of the last century have been surefire entertainment for the last several years. CBS's young President William S. Paley, an occasional nightowl, thought the radio audience might like a whiff of the same. CBS Producer Al Rinker finally decided Diamond Horseshoe's Joe Howard was just the tintype to headline the show...
...American Ballad Contest of barbershop quartets and Gibson Girl trios in Manhattan's Central Park, rasp-voiced