Word: naming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Transcontinental Broadcasting System, Inc., Elliott Roosevelt's venture, is scheduled to go into business Jan. 1 with some 100 stations. All last week at The Blackstone in Chicago, the lure of Elliott's name, plus the promise of some 60 hours a week of steady if cut-rate business, kept customers coming. B-S-H had already contracted for 15 premium night-time hours a week; Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. scheduled its noisy commentator, Elliott Roosevelt himself, on Transcontinental. Dorothy Thompson was courted; Boake Carter and Father Coughlin were possibilities. There were no such headliners as Jack Benny...
...tigers pulling streetcars, later painted unicorns, circuses, zebras playing banjos. Since she was never exposed to lessons in anatomy, drawing or perspective, her people and animals are boneless but nonetheless seem natural. Her father's explanation: "She draws a picture of an animal like you write your name-through long, uninhibited practice...
...horses, does not milk or drive a car. She still finds time to paint farm and hunting scenes, recently did a mural through the SFA (see below) for the post office at La Follette, Tenn. Last month she bore her first child, a son. Dahlov got her own name from a song the Zorachs used to sing to her about "Mama, Daddy love 'um." Her older brother Tessim's name came from "Infinitesimal." Her own son survived his christening with a simple "Bobby-Bill...
Five Harvard students, four named Murphy, one Murphey, received $360 each from a scholarship fund established in 1916 by William Stanislaus Murphy, Harvard '85, for the "collegiate education of men of the name of Murphy." The college announced that for them a Murphey was as good as a Murphy...
...trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must be a bachelor. Then we shall get the women. . . ." They study the man at the other table, then call out to him: "HITLER! HITLER! . . ." Such was the opening this week of a new propaganda serial staged by British Broadcasting Corp. Its name: The Shadow of the Swastika. Its story: the careers of the Nazi bully boys from beer hall to the rape of Poland...