Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found a way out. In the half-Spanish, half-French border village of Le Perthus he established his Government in a house, No. 22 on the main street of the village, the back door of which was in Spanish territory, the front in French. The Spanish section of the town was temporarily made the fifth capital of Loyalist Spain. But not for long. When the triumphant Rebels pressed forward to the frontier (see p. 16), Premier
Almost before the candle fumes were cleared, the Boston musicians returned in white pea jackets, and were on their way to town with Composer Louis Gruenberg's modernistic jazz score, Daniel Jazz. The result was hardly enough to shake a Brahmin into a shag, but it was pretty hot stuff for the Boston Symphony...
Divorced. Burleigh Grimes, 45, crack spitball pitcher of the 19205; from his second wife, Laura Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME...
journalism are the Sauk Centre Heralds, Archbold Buckeyes, and Oologah Oozings that deliver homey news to 17,000,000 small-town and rural Americans. In the U. S. newspaper business, country weeklies of their kind are a big bright spot. While the urban dailies wane, the rural weeklies wax. Since 1929 they have gained in numbers,* circulation and advertising lineage, while the daily group has fallen...
Country editors have little chance, however, of getting rich. The average publisher-owner of a small-town weekly earns about $2,400 a year, including income from his job printing. If he lives far out on the range, like Editor Charles Laflin of the Covert, S. Dak., Advance, he must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor...