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...fill out the bill, a variety of ten-minute side-kicks are shown. They include a nifty Donald Duck and some sad items on stunt-men and sealions. Also a weird pot-pourri on the history of the Academy Award, which gives tid-bits from the cinematic wows since '28. It doesn't seem to prove much, but it's interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/24/1940 | See Source »

...British made Colonel Sweeney a reserve captain in R. A. F. to make it all pukka. They segregated the reckless Americans, rather than salt them into the conservative R. A. F. Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Eagles for Britain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...opinion thinks uplift is fine, but uplift that makes money is even finer. Last month in Manhattan, amid an outburst of pompous, dead-pan hullabaloo, an uplifting stunt was launched by the National Committee for Music Appreciation, an outfit headed by John Erskine, novelist, musician, guiding light and onetime president of the Juilliard School of Music. The New York branch of the Committee, billing itself in double-page advertisements as "a non-profit organization," announced that it would distribute twelve sets of operatic recordings "at an incredibly small cost!"-$1.75 for three or four records. Last fortnight the same records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: October Records | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Assisted by his Quincy Street neighbor, Dave Blackmer, 13, young Conant has built up his station since last winter out of "strictly home-built equipment," and with yesterday's publicity stunt he inaugurated the fall series of programs for "Station HARV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK YIELDS HEATING PIPES TO NEW 40-WATT STATION | 10/5/1940 | See Source »

...swank Savoy Hotel shelter, where guests can dine, dance and sleep, marched 50 ill-clad men & women with two children. Leading the pack was Phil Piratin, famed Hyde Park Communist orator. Two elegant Savoy directors, a constable and a Scotland Yard detective could not make them budge, but the stunt missed fire when the all clear sounded after only 13 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: People's Week | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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