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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every tournament brings up some new player. The one at Hillcrest was a giant Californian, Fred Morrison, who made 15 threes during the 36-hole qualifying round and won the medal with 136, four better than Diegel. Before long he disappeared into the traps that medalists so often discover in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dials for Diegel | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Fortnight ago the Turkish Consul-General at New York told the Merchants' Association that his country was "desirous to come in touch with societies interested in hogs." Because pig-flesh is forbidden food to Moslems, he explained, Turkey is becoming overrun with wild swine. Perhaps some U. S. concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wild Hoggers | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Obviously if sound movie producers use a song published by somebody else, they get no royalties, may have to pay some. Example: Warner Bros, purchased "Sonny Boy," published and written by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, with lyric changes by Al Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Back to Melody | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Radio Music Co. has another function. It intends to discover new music, encourage new composers. It is tired of jazz, wants melody. Its President Edwin Claude Mills† last week said: "We are not interested in 'reform.' We are not trying to get ourselves into such a rarified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Back to Melody | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

In Hollywood are the new $75,000,000 studios of Fox Film Corp, Throughout the U. S. are some 1,200 theatres controlled by Fox Theatres Corp. In almost every country are Fox distributing agencies. In sole command of the Fox organization was, until last week, William Fox who from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox Abdication | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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