Word: timers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young business of radio, the oldest continuous network commercial program is the Cities Service Concert (age 12), selling motor oil and gasoline. Last week Cities Service signed up for its 13th year over NBC. Like many another radio old timer, the Cities Service program got its start with Graham McNamee announcing. First feature was silvery Edwin Franko Goldman's cornety band. When the program was a half-year old, Canadian Conductor Rosario Bourdon took over, be gan making the Cities Service hour the big-time show it is today. He handed the baton over last February to Dr.* Frank...
...buying. Local liquor men are peeved that the Yale game is away this year. They count on old Eli to kick in with plenty. As for which Houses are the biggest consumers of bottled sunshine, no one seems to know. "They all buy plenty," said one old-timer. "Adams, Lowell, Leverett, Wigglesworth, Adams...
...which the technique of Magazine Artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker seemed adapted to stone, to Edouard Chassaing's knotty, Gothic Aesculapius (see cut). Most curious planes were observed in a plaster "diorama" entitled Reclamation of Eroded Farm Land (see cut), by Chicago's rugged old-timer Rudolph Weisenborn...
...Massachusetts and old Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, who married Johnny's parents 33 years ago, joined in performing the ceremony. Leaving the altar, Anne caught Brother James Roosevelt's eye, winked. At the church door Groom Johnny hailed his car like an old-timer (see cut). The guests trooped after, to the Nahant Tennis Club. They consumed 500 bottles of imported champagne, and food which Secret Service in the kitchen had made sure was not poisoned. A popular morsel of their gossip was about Mrs. Franklin Jr. (Ethel du Pont) who is expecting a baby...
...Louisville, Cleveland, St. Louis, as well as in Manhattan's Randall's Island and Long Island's Jones Beach. Most important of these festivals, that of the 20-year-old St. Louis Municipal Theater Association, opened last week with a repertory that included such old-timers as Chimes of Normandy, Rosalie, Show Bout, and Roberta, such latter-day specimens as White Horse Inn. Opener for the twelve-week festival was a brand new work by owl-faced Old-timer Jerome Kern entitled Gentlemen Unafraid. With a Civil-Wartime libretto carpentered by the experienced hands of Otto Harbach...