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Although the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, by which Mexico, Canada, Cuba and the U. S. hope to unsnarl the untidy tangle of wave lengths in this continent, will probably not go into effect until late this year, Mexico is trying to straighten out its aerial relations with the U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Mexican Air | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

Since B-B-C is banker as well as supplier to most alleys, it worked. Equipment was streamlined, spittoons were thrown out, floors were swept oftener, untidy language was frowned on. Sloganed B-B-C to proprietors: "Be a good host, be a good housekeeper, be promotionally minded." Result for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spittoons Out, Profits Up | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

They formed it, at Delmonico's, as a supper club. Its early days were bumpy, but it grew & grew, to become the most ancient, most active, most ardent of U. S. stage societies. Today it has 1,100 members, over 80% of them theatre people, has a smoke-filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gamboling Lambs | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Personal and harshly bitter though the book is in essence, it sets up with uncommon sensuous clarity a country and a people: Ogden's father, in one of the few gentle gestures of his life, caressing his mother's new grave with the flat of his shovel; "a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Twain | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Dooley. He gave up his untidy house in town, moved out to a country home near Stamford, Conn. There he clothed his immensity in a pair of frayed trousers and a sweatshirt. But he remained a member of Manhattan's exclusive Racquet & Tennis Club, wore costly suits made by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Column | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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