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The chief reason was the Democratic candidate. Martin H. Kennelly (rhymes with uh-nelly) was something new in Chicago politics. A businessman and civic leader, he had fought the Kelly-Nash machine in 1936 and 1939. This year he had consented to run only on condition that he would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Something Different | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

The 1945-46 theatrical season has been marked by a paucity of musical comedies and as great a paucity, in those which have appeared, of the usual cheap superficiality and bad taste that have become almost a trademark of this particular form of the American stage. Whatever precedent may have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/8/1946 | See Source »

As is the vogue with musicomedies, the plot of "Nelly Bly" is based on a story which can provide variety of scene, prolific use of bright costumes, and love--in this case the story of the semi-mythical woman reporter who set out in 1889 to beat Phineas Fogg's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/8/1946 | See Source »

It's Hot in Here is a thin (80-page), close-cropped (5-by-7-in.) book of ferocious, slapstick, sometimes disturbing gag-drawings plus a short introduction by Magazine Writer Kyle (Redder Than the Rose) Crichton. "Virgil Partch is nuts," writes Crichton, ". . . but nuts in a nice American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nuts but Nice | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

But Hanby had failed to copyright his song. First inkling he had that it was in print came a year later, when he saw it in a Columbus, Ohio music store. He wrote to his publisher. Came the reply: "Nelly Gray is sung on both sides of the Atlantic. We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Oldtimer Remembered | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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