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...asserting that New York's Democracy is a dirty political machine, famed young Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week went back to work. He produced a dramatic indictment charging that a leading Tammany officeholder, whose name is a household word throughout the State, was a bribe-taker and extortionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: New Business | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...pianists and fiddlers who are not headliners can get a chance to play with an orchestra. Conductor Barzin's new American Orchestra, a professional, unionized, 72-man group of players, offered its services to soloists at a minimum price of $1,800 per concert. First taker, who appeared last week in a Carnegie Hall concert with the new group, was U. S. Pianist Frank Bishop. Pianist Bishop played three concertos, broke down in two of them, but at least he had had his night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orchestra for Hire | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Developed by NBC as a sustaining program, Information Please long attracted no sponsor because agencies thought it appealed to an intellectual, and therefore limited, audience. But last week, at last, the program had a taker-Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. for a reported $2,500 per week. Canada Dry, which once sponsored Jack Benny but has not been on a network for nearly seven years, bought Information Please because it has a fairly large and very vociferous "quality" audience. Its attractions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Session Sold | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Applications for ticketmen must be made with the head ticket-taker at the H. A. A. tomorrow and Wednesday between 9 and 12 o'clock noon, while prospective ushers may file their blanks between 2 and 4 o'clock from September 26 to September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Ushers Allowed to Watch Games for Nothing | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

British editors, rallying to potent Sir Kingsley Wood, rebuked Humorist Herbert for "misrepresentations," "distortion" and "questionable levity." He replied with a letter to the London Times, arguing: "If more plain language were used, there would be less bad legislation. It shocks no one to [have the Government census taker] say 'Other issue and marriage condition of father and mother where the father of the child is a person other than present or a former spouse?' But what this means in plain language is: 1) 'Have you had any other illegitimate children?' 2) 'Are you married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Disobedient Herbert | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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