Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music men go in heavily for pep-talks, high-pressure promotion. A poignant little editorial in the Etude Music Magazine last year related the tale of a millionaire's daughter who was saved from something worse than death by staying home to practice on her piano. Retail association heads exhort the trade to avoid competitive squabbles. Thundered NAMM's President Alfred D. LaMotte in the convention issue of Piano Trade Magazine: "I protest most vigorously any implication that there is any real competition between pianos and piccolos, accordions and ocarinas or harmonicas and harps." Pianos. In 1935 about...
Mystery-loving folk throughout the world have woven legends around the afterlife of historic personages supposed to have survived their official deaths. A reputed mummy of John Wilkes Booth was long exhibited, with the tale that Lincoln's assassin escaped from the burning barn near Fredericksburg, Va., became a conscience-stricken wanderer, killed himself in Enid, Okla. in 1903 (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). Some other legendary survivors: Louis Charles, Dauphin of France; Earl Kitchener; Tsar Nicholas II; Belgian Banker Alfred Lowenstein. As the years passed there grew up in the North Carolina countryside a firm belief that Peter Stuart...
...creative literature [TRANSITION] . . . wants to substitute for the short story and the novel such forms as the modern magic tale, the myth, the legend, the dream, the saga, the folktale...
...sharecropper for the right to buy food, gin & sell his part of the cotton crop wherever he wants, instead of where the landlord wants. Still older is the story of the sub-subsistence living level of some 2,000,000 Southern tenant farmers. But a newer and somewhat brighter tale is that of the incipient cropper colony movement, both public and private...
MOTHER OF THE BRIDE-Alice Grant Rosman-Putnam ($2). An adept at pleasant solution of English middle-class family problems, Author Rosman deftly pilots three sets of lovers to a happy landing in a fluffy tale which should meet the clamor for hot-weather entertainment...