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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Hatfield Broun put an end to his feud with McCoy Howard by signing a new contract with the New York Post, to take effect day after his World-Telegram contract expires next week. The Post, in place of Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate, will distribute Broun's column to other papers. A sportswriter before he became a columnist, Broun will also turn out stories on baseball and racing for the Post...
Block has 19 sponsors, who chip in a total of about $325,000 a year for air time and Block's "talent" services-turning records, purring commercials, keeping the Ballroom chatty and glittery. Last week Martin Block signed a new contract for five years at better than $30,000 a year. At the contract's end, he expects to retire, at 43, to live on his annuities. Says he-and this time he is not quoting Owen D. Young: "Don't let anyone tell you they can't live without working...
When Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, talked at Yale last year, only 268 undergraduates turned out to hear him. But last week Comrade Browder had what pressagents know as "a buildup." Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth had barred him. New Haven American Legionnaires had bellowed at tolerant Yale President Charles Seymour for not barring him. All this set the stage for more fun than Yale men had had since old George Gundelfinger issued his first tract (in 1923) on "Why the Bulldog Is Losing His Grip...
Cried Browder later: "A beautiful reception. The students were beautifully behaved." The American Civil Liberties Union congratulated President Seymour. Whooped the New York Daily News: 3,000 BOOLA Boo BROWDER AT YALE. But the World-Telegram, which believes that the Browder menace is no laughing matter, hissed: "Liberalism ... has its sophomore class...
...already swooning in the aisles over the fire-and-ice perfection of Arturo Toscanini's interpretations. Since then the little white-haired Maestro has become the darling of millions who couldn't tell a fugue from a flugelhorn. Today, as chief of NBC's shiny new symphony, 72-year-old Arturo Toscanini is far & away the biggest lion in the U. S. musical...