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...they had set-visible for scores of miles, burning for days on end. (German forests are hatched with fire lanes, so that blazes did not spread indefinitely.) Some explosives were apparently set afire. Observers testified to great flashes of light above the fires' glow, as if a huge trolley were sputtering across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Fall Planting | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...Germans will find Britain's land chief on his toes to meet them. One surprise may be full-size tanks landed by airplane. Last month an air-wise U. S. observer beheld, flying over Paris, a German ship of such huge proportions it could carry a trolley car in its belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: It Begins | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...turn of the century, under foxy Ned Hanlon, Brooklyn won the pennant twice (1899 and 1900), were promptly nicknamed the Superbas-after Hanlon's Superbas, a famed burlesque troupe of that era. In 1916 and 1920, guided by beloved Wilbert ("Uncle Robbie") Robinson, the newly dubbed Dodgers (originally Trolley Dodgers, because Brooklynites were constantly dodging ballpark-bound trolleys) again proved the class of the league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Modern Superbas | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...play the jovial, avuncular manager to perfection, has made S. HUROK PRESENTS-he insists on big type-a profitable billing in U. S. concert business. He arrived in the U. S. in 1905 with less than $2 in his pockets, knocked about as a peddler of pins & notions, a trolley conductor, a factory worker. Fond of music, he organized the Van Hugo Musical Society (he invented the name, which he thought imposing), and arranged concerts for labor organizations. His first real artist was Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, whose fee he beat down to $500. S. Hurok hired the New York Hippodrome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: S. HUROK PRESENTS. . . . | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...rained on." Mickey McGuire. Through thick and thin Mom has always been a great newspaper reader. Combing the classified ads one day, she found one asking for a young actor to play black-polled Mickey McGuire in a series of shorts based on Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley strip. Mom blackened little Joe's tow head with burnt cork, and for the next seven years Joe Yule Jr. made 78 Mickey McGuire pictures at $200 a picture. He also had his name legally changed to Mickey McGuire. But in 1932 Producer Larry Darmour shelved the series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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