Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better." On the 50th anniversary of its first production, Cavalleria Rusticana was produced at the Royal Opera House in Rome. Its composer, Pietro Mascagni, aged 76, not only heard it but wielded the baton while seated...
...with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better...
...Commission. Former Congressman Driscoll helped run the 1935 lobbying investigation which brought Associated's Napoleon, Howard C. Hopson, out into the open. To him goes credit for having dug up "little Elmer," the Warren (Pa.) Western Union messenger boy who caught his boss getting names out of the phone book (at the instance of Associated), to sign to indignant telegrams to Washington demanding that the holding-company bill be defeated. To Trustee Driscoll will go the job of bringing asset-recovery suits, if necessary, against the Hopson gang...
...audience to a hopeful 15,000,000 or so. Despite the enormous odds against winning, some ardent rainbow-chasers do no telephoning while Pot o' Gold is on the air (to avoid busy signals). Many who venture out during the program prudently leave someone at home by the phone, just in case. And many telephone subscribers who previously had unlisted phones now have their names listed...
...from time to time there will be printed here lists of what record sales and the opinion of musicians show to be really good records. Some of these are: "Just a Mood" by the Teddy Wilson Quartet (Brunswick), a blues recording done with the aid of Red Norve (xylo-phone), Harry James (trumpet), and Johnny Simmons (bass). This is blues as it should be--quiet, relaxed, and with long, luscious ideas. Harry James plays phenomenally, although I suspect that most of his solo is swiped from several old Louis Armstrong records...