Word: phils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilfred Glenn, square-set, sandy-haired bass who grew up on a Mexican ranch. Pianist Frank Black joined the Revelers in 1925, started making the smooth arrange ments which make Revelers sound better than other male quartets. The two new Revelers still look like good-natured college boys: Baritone Phil Dewey, who not long ago was earning $3 a Sunday singing in the Methodist Church choir of Bloomington. Ind. ; and tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter...
...salary from $7,500 to $6,000 last week), was passed simultaneously with measures which doubled the State income tax rate, abolished deductions for capital losses from incomes, levied more taxation on chain stores, placed an emergency tax on corporation dividends. The result, about half of what "Young Phil" had hoped for, makes available $7,000,000 for Unemployment Relief in Wisconsin...
...Levy. As usual, when he is fighting someone with a punch, Uzcudun tucked his chin against his chest, allowed Levinsky to pound the top of his Neanderthal skull. After ten rounds of these tactics, one of the judges voted to call it a draw. The other judge and Referee, Phil Collins, overruled him because Levinsky, though comically inaccurate, had been energetic enough, particularly in the last three rounds...
...this blast. "Phil M. Daly" (Jack Harrower), Film Daily colyumist, responded by accusing Macy advertisements of giving the public an erroneous impression that "the department store workers are just One Big Happy Family." He reminded Mr. Collins that the Better Business Bureau of New York has condemned advertisements which claim that a store is underselling competitors (TIME, Oct. 12). The B. B. B. in a letter which Macy's competitors reprinted in advertisements, called such methods ". . . an open attack on the integrity of advertising. . . unsound business. . . inimical to the public interest . . . ruthless and predatory...
Likewise pleased was Universal's publicity department and Universal's General Sales Manager Phil Reisman, who saw in the "Lie-Detector" a mechanical means of forecasting the efficacy of mechanical entertainment. Said he: "Instead of the old hit or miss previews we can now know exactly the emotional effect of any film, can cut out the 'dead' spots, and generally improve the pictures distributed." A live spot in Frankenstein as revealed by the "Lie-Detector": one in which the ugly face of Frankenstein's dwarfish assistant pops up from behind a graveyard fence. Dead spots...