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...which had long closed its ears to the small talk, big commercials and occasional records of the jockeys, had signed famed Jazzman Paul Whiteman for an hour spin five days a week. Mutual last week opposed him with an older spinster: Martin Block. From his four sponsors, Whiteman will gross $208,000 a year; Block will get $312,000, plus a couple of hundred thousand more from Manhattan's WNEW and Los Angeles' KFWB (altogether, disc jockeying's top dollar...
Another British vicar, the Rev. W. G. Hargrave Thomas of Needham Market, contributed a little shocker of his own: no "social stigma" should be pinned on spinster schoolmarms, he thought, if they felt like having a baby...
Lucy became a rich spinster and a legend in the town, a legend that eventually woke up to itself and had the shakes. Richter's quiet sketching of the period after the Spanish-American War, and the life of the "better families" might seem merely nostalgic in intent, if it were not for the touches that finally bring bitter horror out of Lucy's narcissistic dream. At that point Richter actually makes a ghost (Lucy's dead father) walk...
Last week Spinster Eleanor McClatchy, third-generation queen of the Bee (and president of a humming little chain of three California papers and five radio stations), had a bright little idea for making the drones work better. She had recorded music piped in: loud and animated in the composing room, soft and restful in the city room. One sour newsman, after hearing out Ole Buttermilk Sky, said it didn't do a thing for his writing...
...Basic Dark Blue." The picture will show a well-spread, middle-aged (at 47) spinster, who dresses in "basic dark blue" sacks (designed by Nicole de Paris) and replies to almost any statement by clasping her hands, pursing her lips, blinking her eyes and exclaiming: "Goodness!" But Mary Margaret is a brilliant interviewer. With a well-controlled gush she can "soften up" almost anyone to just the sticky consistency her listeners love. She does it with an air of dithery, appreciative interest that soon has most guests babbling as if they had known her for years. Once she had Jimmy...