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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio, as well as for almost everybody else, the Royal Visit to the States last week was a great event (see p. 15), and radio made a great to-do about it. Newscasters kept for U. S. tuners a here-they-come, there-they-go vigil from the moment the Royal train rolled across the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls last week until Their Majesties left Hyde Park Sunday night for Canada. Radio strove as vigorously as the press for news angles and side slants, but broadcasters generally watched their step more carefully, trod on no regal corns. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Curtsies | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood's British players, put on a full hour of British-accented heigh-ho. Cissie Loftus sang My Old Dutch, Vivien Leigh and Basil Rathbone recited from the Brownings; and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce and C. Aubrey Smith O. B. E. sang Three Little Fishies (see p. 47). Having thus offered Their Majesties some idea of the state of the Empire in Hollywood, the gathering, 44 strong, responded to a champagne toast proposed by U. S.-born Play Actor George M. Cohan. Listeners heard no pops or gurgles, only the punctilious tinkles as the toasters smashed their glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Curtsies | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Married. Marion Houghton Hepburn, sister of Actress Katharine Hepburn (see p. 40); and Ellsworth Strong Grant; in West Hartford, Conn. Among the bridesmaids: Sister Katharine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Died. Raymond Orteig, 69, restaurateur and airmen's angel; after long illness; in Manhattan. Stirred by Alcock & Brown's transatlantic flight (1919), he posted a $25,000 purse for the first non-stop New York-Paris flight. Six fliers lost their lives before Charles A. Lindbergh (see p...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...morning after the King and Queen arrived on U. S. soil (see p. 75), the London Times published a 32-page "United States Number" as a supplement to its regular edition. The 10,000 copies sent to the U. S. were snatched up in three hours, as amusing souvenirs, and the Times had to run off another edition of 10,700. At home, Britons studied their copies carefully, learned much about life in the U. S. The Times covered 150 years of U. S. history in four columns, which was 3 9/10 more columns than its issue of June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O.K., England | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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