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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singer who gets away with a good imitation of Helen Morgan. . . Raymor Ballroom while inhabitated by jitterbugs and the like, has some good jazz in Les Brown's band. . . Roseland State Ballroom much the same type as the Raymor, this place also does pretty well with Tommy Reynold's an Artic Shaw imitator. . . Sonny Burke, a Duke University product who does just as well as his predecessor, Les Brown, is playing at the Atlantic Ballroom in Revere. Good dance music and quite acceptable swing. . . And don't forget that Jimmy Dorsey is playing the MIT Sophomore Prom tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...going to be the first U. S. Senator to drive his own car down the new Pan-American Highway to Mexico City & back," boasted North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds last month. Last week, on a side trip from Mexico, D. F., Driver Reynolds became the first U. S. Senator to be cleaned out by bandits. Stopped by a traffic jam, Senator Reynold was approached by several Mexicans. His story: "They were not abusive, only businesslike. I thought they were merely customs officials. When one of them took off my wrist watch and pocketed it, I realized they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...propagandists never even wants to discover the truth; he is in too great a hurry to makes his case against the fools and the wicked, having, as a rule, no idea how like the fools and the wicked are to the wise and good." As for Sir Joshua Reynolds, who "hoped that British Art would take its place in the European tradition and achieve what he called the grand style," "one is tempted to take his mastery for granted," forgetting that "he learned to imitate the final results of mastery without going through the preliminaries." Still Fry is not altogether...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 2/1/1935 | See Source »

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