Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With little time for writing, "Steve" Hannagan sold a dozen articles to Cosmopolitan last year on such personages as Tunney, Tommy Milton, Johnny Weissmuller, Gar Wood, Bill Tilden, Albie Booth. Last October, aged 30, he married Ruth Ellery of Manhattan. He likes to lie beneath a Panatrope phonograph and whistle in tune with it. The sound of anyone eating an apple before breakfast sends him into a rage. He wishes he could tap dance, has no use for "public relations counsels." Odds, Ends...
...trouble is both in & out of the office. Once it lost a $4,000,000 patent infringement suit to Magnavox Co., and last year William Carl Grunow was ousted from the presidency by his partner Bertram James Grigsby. Last week unGrunowed Grigsby-Grunow, undaunted, planned to expand, acquire Columbia Phonograph Co. by an exchange of stock. Columbia owns the U. S. properties of Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. which was merged with Gramophone Co. Ltd. in April to form Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd. Columbia's properties, which will pass to Grigsby-Grunow, include U. S. factories where are made Columbia phonographs...
Private Lives will please educated audiences, tantalize others. Good shot: Miss Shearer smashing a phonograph record over Mr. Montgomery...
Hundreds of people were turned away from the Powers trial at Clarksburg, although the authorities took care of as many spectators as they could by holding it in Moore's Opera House. Outside were sold phonograph records, sheet music composed about the Quiet Dell tragedy, a pamphlet called The Love Secrets of West Virginia's Bluebeard. Led into the Opera House every day on a chain like a little bear, Mr. Powers sat on the stage and chewed gum apathetically. After hearing his defense, which attributed the murders to two mythical acquaintances of Powers', a jury...
...Blue calico dress for Susie Bigfoot; 30 Ib. boiling beef for Hudson's; 4 pr. gumboots size 11 Lucky Strike Mining Co.; dozen phonograph records assorted Joe Slisco; rosebush knocked down deputy marshal; 2 live pigs not exceed 10 Ib.; 2 Ib. epsom salts...