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...years ago a short, swart poultryman named Paul Onorato decided to do something about a fowl-killing device which would instantly stun and immobilize the victim. He conveyed his ideas to a crack German machinist named Emile Weinaug who built an electrocution device. When it proved sound in principle they took it to the San Francisco plant of Link-Belt Co., which enthusiastically took the machine under its corporate wing, gave Weinaug a job in the tool-room. Link-Belt plans to feel out its market before jumping into quantity production, sell the first machines for $1,500, part...
...Iturbi, swart, muscular pianist-conductor, began the 1936 U. S. summer music season with more engagements than any other hot-weather maestro (TIME, July 6). By last week, when the season was closing, Iturbi had made more news than any of his colleagues, less by able conducting than by magnificent exhibitions of Spanish spunk...
Despite the fact that at rehearsals Conductor Iturbi had given everyone a clear impression that he did not consider a pianist essential, the swart Spaniard stormed: "Did I not give the librarian the score the day before? Did [it] not say Impressions of Buenos Aires requires a pianist? And then, when I am about to commence, there is no pianist! Without a pianist I do not play!" Iturbi on frankfurters: "Hot dogs! The audience eating hot dogs while we play the second symphony of Jean Sibelius! People scraping their feet on the floor. Like thees : Scrape ! scrape ! Madre de Dios...
...sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done by swart, chunky Conductor-Pianist Jose Iturbi...
...trial in Supreme Court were swart, droop-eyed Charles Lucania and nine henchmen charged with having put New York City brothels on a big-business basis. Until 1933, explained Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey in his opening address to the jury, the city's prostitution was an individualistic enterprise, with a few "bookers" operating small strings of "houses" (apartments). Then various racketeers decided that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known...