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...result of the riot, said Dr. Heaton, a law was passed the following year prohibiting "the odious practice of digging up . . . dead bodies" for dissection. In its stead there sprang up a bootleg body-snatching racket run by ancient gangsters who did not hesitate to make their own corpses when none were available. It was not until 1854 that a New York law was passed granting unclaimed bodies in public morgues to medical schools. Body snatching in some other parts of the U.S. persisted until the 20th Century, by which time laws similar to New York State's were...
Eugene Edward Buck, the man who rode high and handsome as president of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) while it grew into a $7,000,000-a-year business, lost his job last week. ASCAP's directors elected in his stead Critic-Composer Deems Taylor...
Dorothy S. Backer (elected publisher in her sick husband's stead a fortnight ago) said the Post made the change because she was impressed, while commuting, with the difficulty readers had in trying to handle a full-sized newspaper. She was able to announce a highly satisfactory result: the Post's 208,000 circulation jumped. 30% within a week as a tabloid, passed the 235;625 circulation it had when the Backers bought it from J. David Stern. Publisher Stern pushed his circulation with premiums-from records to reprints of Van Gogh. The Backers, who have poured more...
...movies" into a single category, recognizing the existence of only minor variations on a general theme. We haven't seen that there is essentially as much difference between one film and another as there is between a symphony and a jam session. That example might stand us in good stead, incidentally; "Downbeat" doesn't try to judge Toscanini, nor does Olin Downes rip into Benny Goodman's work. Why ignore this demarcation when it comes to movies...
Before Moscow his knowledge of communications, his hatred, his energy and what tanks he had seemed to be standing him in good stead. When the Germans had pressed to practically within view of the capital's onion-shaped towers, Marshal Zhukov's men counterattacked and held...