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...good NBC show, Tom Riley may be the man whose pencil and quiet word gave the script its magic touch. If the base fiddler didn't arrive for the broadcast, that may have been Tom Riley you heard, taking it. He's one of many well-paid but unsung NBC producers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunes, Scripts Plagued Them in, College--And Still Do | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

ANOTHER important boy from rural mountain parts--with face and hair of reddish hue, is Thomas L. Riley. Fat pencil in hand, he's the man who has put such people as Lowell Thomas, Ruth Etting, and the NBC Honeymooners on the air. His job is not performed at the microphone. His pencil may cross out one of Lowell Thomas lines. When the orchestra gets its cue for one of Ruth Etting's songs, Tom Riley, late of the University of Kentucky, is the man who penciled it in. Mr.Riley, in short, is a producer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunes, Scripts Plagued Them in, College--And Still Do | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...legend "This car is parked in violation of the Harvard University Parking Regulations. If not removed from University property by---- the University will, if it sees fit, have this car towed to a garage and stored at the owner's expense and risk." A terse message, written in pencil on the reverse side of the tag, reads: "See Mr. Apted, Lehman Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yellow Tags, Tied to Vehicles Parked Between Eliot and Kirkland, Cause Petition of Owners | 9/28/1935 | See Source »

...best drawing in pencil, pen, or wash, made directly from nature, of architectural, landscape, or figure subject, by an undergraduate in any of the courses in Fine Arts during the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5,180 IN PRIZE MONEY IS OFFERED TO SCHOLARS | 9/25/1935 | See Source »

...minutes earlier, unknown to Mr. Hull, Vice President Dundas and his chief, Board Chairman George S. Walden of Standard Vacuum Oil, had sent in their cards to Chief Wallace Murray of the State Department's Division of Near Eastern African Affairs. In his shirtsleeves, Diplomat Murray was fingering a pencil and thinking to himself as he looked out the window that in Ethiopia it must be raining too. Putting on his coat, Mr. Murray prepared to receive Standard Oil, remarking to his secretary, "I wonder what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Odor of Oil (Cond'd) | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

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