Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among his hearers remembered his father, who died in 1933. Charles Lindbergh Sr., of Minnesota, was one of 56 Congressmen (50 in the House, six in the Senate) who voted against declaring war in 1917. Outwardly cold, privately devoted Father Lindbergh wrote on Feb. 4, 1917: "Charles is fifteen today. He does not allow me to forget that, but I would not have forgotten it anyway, for this is a serious time. The world has gone...
...flight comic strips are today consciously comic, few still appeal primarily to children. Like movies and pulp fiction, they are mostly simple narratives for the unsophisticated of all ages. First comic-strip character to find high adventure in Europe's war was the Register and Tribune Syndicate's Jane Arden girl reporter for a mythical newspaper...
...future with any confidence? ... I think I should advise you to go and consult Old Moore, because he is quite as likely to be right as I am." Old Moore's Almanack has appeared every year since 1697. Only the author and publishers know who Old Moore is today...
...threat: to make ASCAP shave its fees in radio's 1941 contract. If fees are revised, Broadcast Music, Inc., will be dissolved. If not, NAB members expect to hand ASCAP a shellacking by 1) refusing to plug any ASCAP songs, including those from movies, producer of much of today's hit music; 2) signing up as many new tunesters and renegade ASCAP-ers as possible; 3) producing its own future Hold Tights, Three Little Fishies, Well All Right...
...Ph.D. at 22, became a member of Columbia University's faculty at 23. "I saw in a flash," said Columbia's Dean John William Burgess later, "that he would become president of Columbia and that Columbia would become the greatest institution on earth." Today, at 77, Dr. Butler has 37 honorary degrees, decorations from almost every important nation, a column and a quarter in the U. S. Who's Who, almost a column more than that in the British Who's Who. Consequently, the publication this week of his autobiography, Across the Busy Years...