Word: reviewers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even in the few countries where freedom of speech is still preserved radio broadcasts are officially or unofficially censored, often for interesting reasons. The dignified Government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp., during the great Coronation Naval review at Spithead last May, was shocked into cutting off the air an announcer who burbled "Damme! The fleet is all lit up!" (TIME, May 31). The offense which moved the censors on that occasion was obviously against sobriety. Last week BBC exercised its power of censorship again and Grey Owl, famed Ojibway of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, who a few days earlier had lectured...
...review its record and ponder its future the S. W. O. C. last week held its first national convention in Pittsburgh. Since S. W. O. C. is not a union but an organizing group headed by Philip Murray, the convention was, in effect, a policy-making body made up of nearly 1,000 delegates from Amalgamated lodges. Four out of five delegates went to the convention straight from the heat of the mills. Nearly half of them were old company union men who had helped lead their organizations into C. I. O. Daily for four days they packed themselves into...
...weeks ago the new quarterly You thought it had reached the acme of daring female magazine journalism when it told what to do for "Your Bosom" (TIME, Nov. 15). But last week Free Lancer Maxine Davis wrote in Pictorial Review a story on the prostate gland which made You's frankness read like Sunday-school talk. A year ago Hearst's Pictorial Review decided, after a survey, that its 25-year-old typical reader wants open discussion of problems not usually found in ladies' journals, embarked Maxine Davis on a series covering abortions, syphilis, menopause, degenerative diseases...
Barely out of Columbia, he married red-headed Alva Taylor. Because he was the son-in-law of a famed Chicago Tribune columnist, the late Bert Leston Taylor, Gallico was made welcome on the Tribune's New York cousin, lusty Daily News. Hired to review movies, he was soon kicked downstairs to the sports department where he reigned as editor and columnist for 14 years, including a brief spell when he was also assistant managing editor. He painfully learned skiing, flying and other sports he wrote about. It made good copy...
...Historical fiction is better right now than it ever has been before," Bernard DeVoto '20, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature stated last night in his concluding address at the New Lecture Hall...