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...Greenwich Village laboratory, John Vincent Lawless Hogan, founder and president of New York's WQXR* and a topflight inventor since 1910, demonstrated his new facsimile newspaper transmitter and receiver. Plugged to an FM radio, his recorder rolled out a 9½-by-12-inch newspaper like a paper towel, 500 words a minute, 16 pages an hour. No linotype, press or delivery boy was needed; everything on the pages was broadcast free. It came in clear as an advertiser's tear sheet...
Show Boat. Still a topflight musicomedy, with probably the best-loved of all musicomedy scores (TIME...
Lusty and busty, steatopygous and sinful, Kiki swung along her Paphian way from scullery maid to artists' model to become one of Montparnasse's topflight nightclub entertainers. The artists who immortalized Kiki's curves in oil and marble sometimes forgot to pay her, and Kiki never cared. Unconcerned, she tramped the streets in a threadbare overcoat and man's hat and some artist's castoff shoes. Later, in fancier finery, Kiki lounged in the wicker chairs at the Cafe du Dome or sang in her Pernod-husky voice ("I could never sing...
...second night, la repetition generate, is the real first night. To it are invited topflight critics, big-shot editors, notables in the arts, gossip columnists, diplomats, politicians, the cream of society. Not till the third night, or première, can the general public buy seats, and then only the worst...
Last week Roback published the Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book in a limited edition of 1,050 copies. It included essays by Roback and 22 other scholars, many of them topflight,* who largely share Roback's admiration-though not to his worshipful extent-for Albert Schweitzer...