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...Lincoln: The War Years; Biographer Ray Stannard Baker, for Woodrow Wilson-Life and Letters (Vols. 7, 8); Poet Mark Van Doren, for Collected Poems; Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, for his dispatches to the New York Times from Berlin.* Other journalism citations: Baltimore Sun Cartoonist Edmund Duffy, New York World Telegram Reporter S. Burton Heath, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial-writer Bart Howard...
Last week Mike explained to New York World-Telegram Reporter Douglas Gilbert: "Any way you look at it a fair is a honkytonk. I don't mean a carny show where the play is for the sucker. You can't put a show on like that any more. You got to give. So I'm gonna give." Mike is even going to give Elmer "for free" a peep at the Girl in the Goldfish Globe. After that, Mike thinks, Elmer will not mind giving a little something himself...
...will have to stay in my country as long as there remains a single inch of Norwegian soil." From his late brother-in-law's son, King George VI of Great Britain, harassed Haakon received a telegram: ". . . Profound admiration ... for the dignity, courage and tenacity shown by Your Majesty and your people . . . [The Allied Governments] are bringing all help in their power ... so that the Allied forces, fighting side by side with the Norwegians, may prove this latest outrage by Germany to have been as rash as it was wicked." But by this time, General von Falkenhorst had some...
...labor organizations. His first real artist was Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, whose fee he beat down to $500. S. Hurok hired the New York Hippodrome for popular-priced concerts, a new thing then. To swell the advance sales on Belgian Violinist Eugene Ysaÿe, Hurok advertised in the Sunday Telegram: - Actress Marta Eggert...
...most juvenile attempts at the righteous stuff. The hope of jaxx is the new string, reed, and brass ensemble of Artie Shaw. He plays strictly out of this world stuff. It is RELAXED and SINCERE. And that's what jazz needs, relaxation and sincerity. Artie informs me by telegram that Louis Armstrong may soon add depth to the orchestra by taking the second chair in the trumpet section...