Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard errors as spice. The Congressman's bill does indeed specify that the highways shall not pass through cities. TIME erred in following the description of it which he himself gave in the House year ago. Typical excerpt: "The second [route] starts at Buffalo and runs through Pittsburgh, Charleston, W. Va., Atlanta, Ga., to Pensacola...
Oldtimers still go on about William Vaughn Moody's smash hit The Great Divide, in which Margaret Anglin and the late Henry Miller were starred. A book about Miller† published this week tells of his going on tour with the play to Pittsburgh. Before its Manhattan triumph, The Great Divide had been tried out and was panned by critics in Pittsburgh, and Miller was very touchy, about his return engagement there. When, on the first night, people started walking out on his big scene, Miller marched angrily to the footlights, shouted "Are you petty enough to be influenced...
More whoops came from Pittsburgh and Kansas City, homes of two of the youngest big U. S. symphony orchestras. Reason: both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Kansas City Philharmonic signed up permanent conductors. To Pittsburgh went pudgy, astringent Fritz Reiner who, since resigning from the leadership of the Cincinnati Symphony in 1931, has guest-conducted here and there and headed the orchestra department of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Kansas City signed its first long-term contract with U. S.-born Karl Krueger who, during the past five years, has been whipping its depression-born orchestra into a first-class...
...first 18 months. On one day it sold 50,000 copies. Meanwhile, in Maryland, big, serious, six-foot Author Allen had given up his New York story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell had taken her stand in Dixie, Pittsburgh-born Hervey Allen, whose grandfather had fought with the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, took sides with the boys in blue. Traveling on foot and by auto through the Shenandoah Valley, he gathered his material as resolutely and almost as slowly as his forefathers advanced upon Richmond...
...scoring by throwing the 35 pound weight 51 ft. 10 3/4 in. for second place. Bob Haydock tied with James Thomson of M. I. T. in the high jump at 6 ft. 1 in. for fifth place. The mile relay team (Donnelly, MacDonald, Richards, Lightbody) placed third under Pittsburgh and Manhattan. Mason Fornald was shut out in the semi-finals of the hurdles...