Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mommele, Poppele. Abie was a natural for radio when Anne Nichols persuaded Soapmaker Procter & Gamble to put it on the air last year. Playwright Nichols, who bats out the serial with the assistance of a writer named Alford Van Ronkel and the cast, hoarded her material so carefully that a year passed before she exhausted the three acts of her play. The strident squabbles continue with the newlyweds subordinated to their united families. Babies belch, actors say "oi" and "certainel," call each other "mommele," "poppele," and "schlemihlich shpalpeen...
...Goldbergs (TIME, June 23, 1941) as "one of the best serials now being broadcast." In Old Nassau's archives The Goldbergs will find themselves beside such other candidates-for-the-classics as the best of Norman Corwin's scripts, David Loth's Woodrow Wilson, F. van Wyck Mason's Stars...
Owing to the Patriot's Day vacation Monday, only three exercise credits will be necessary this week. Two of these, however, must be major credits, Clarence B. Van Wyok, secretary to the Department of Physical Education, announced last night. Squash or sculling still count as minor credit...
...most laymen, and many a concertgoer, the name Bach refers to Johann Sebastian Bach, who left behind him a musical reputation second only to that of Ludwig van Beethoven. But Johann Sebastian was only one of many talented Bachs who furnished Germany with music for seven generations. Himself the culmination of a long line of Bachs, the great Johann Sebastian begot 20 children, three of whom became composers of world renown: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Christian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach...
Careful, poised, experienced "Jimmy" James became the Times's managing editor in 1932, succeeding Van Anda, To Jimmy James goes the major credit for the Times's superb coverage of World War II. To the carefully chosen reporters he sends abroad James gives tremendous freedom. A departing correspondent is told, in effect: "The Times's attitude is that you are our ambassador...