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Superman in the Volcano shows the wonderworker rescuing his newshen pal, Lois, from a belching crater, splicing a broken power line with uninsulated hands, blowing a sluice in the mountain so that a lava flow will miss the metropolis. There is never any suspense, since Superman always wins, no matter what happens. But his idolators (of all ages) seem satisfied to see him flex his muscles. This vicarious satisfaction has made Superman Paramount's most popular and profitable short, despite the $65,000 it costs to make each cartoon. So popular is the muscular moron that 114 female artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1942 | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...tips. Auburn-haired Publisher Eleanor Medill Patterson paid out many a $5, got in return many a 5? scoop, many a phony tip, many a headache. But last week "Cissie" Patterson got her money's worth. From a news tip, a crew of four male reporters from her newshen-house unearthed a story that scooped the entire U. S. press and the Government-particularly the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FBI Scooped | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...week the Chicago Tribune and MBS got together to give U. S. citizens the low-down on fifth columnists via a program called Wings For America. Using the Orson Welles-Martian Invasion technique, the Tribune-MBS aerial brain storm concerns itself with the patriotic struggles of a mythical Tribune newshen named Lorna Carroll to overthrow a bunch of Putschers calling themselves the "Advance Front." With solemn Elissa Landi playing Lorna, dapper Phillips Holmes as an imaginary MBS commentator, the first installment of Wings For America, which is due to run serially for the next nine weeks, indicated that before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dark Doings | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...permanent staff a talented trio headed by tall, cadaverous Max Jordan, veteran London representative Fred Bate, and French-born, ex-poilu Paul Archinard. Number three U. S. network, MBS, is headed by John Steele in London, by Waverley Root in France, depends on space-rate orators like veteran Newshen Sigrid Schultz in Berlin and hard-working Arthur Mann, now covering the R. A. F. Both NBC and CBS have their European correspondents on the air regularly for two 15-minute periods daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: War Babies | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...Pont upon the ladder and Romeo Roosevelt below. Scene II between John Boettiger in Juliet's cap upon the ladder and Wooer William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below her and a black archiepiscopal figure (Martha Strayer, feature writer of the Washington News) intervening (see cut). All this being off the record, Ambassador Ronald Lindsay could not register a protest even though the parody took place in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ladies' Party | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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