Word: wagnerism
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...newsstands went the September issue of Pic, completely redesigned. Readers of the previous dime, 50-page Pic, which was full of sleazy cheesecake, will hardly recognize the old girl in her new hairdo. The magazine has a new editor-tall, boyish Victor H. Wagner-and he has an assignment to make Pic straighten up and fly right after eight years of floundering...
...Relations). Labor Secretary Frances Perkins put aside her black tricorn, unveiled two "private hats": 1) a broad, black-on-white sailor straw; 2) a trim white Panama with black veil. She seemed to enjoy the leavetaking. At a farewell party at the Statler Hotel she gave Senator Robert F. Wagner an astonishing kiss on the cheek; at another party she shook the hands of 1,800 Labor Department employes (see cut). Her plans: a month in Maine with her ailing husband Paul Wilson; beyond that she would not say. The other departing Cabinet officers were more definite about their futures...
...Wagner: Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 2 sides)«. An authoritative job which should discourage lesser conductors from trying. Performance and recording: excellent...
...heaviest-Gene Lockhart and Andy Devine acting like boys of eight-the fantasy is both unfunny and mawkish. At its best-a flock of ancient socialites helplessly jiving Wagner's Evening Star-it has a weird, wild, death-dance vitality which shows how tame most deliberate surrealism...
Wetting his finger and holding it to the U.S. breeze, New York's aging, ailing Senator Robert F. Wagner, a shrewd weatherman of public opinion, thought the wind last week favored a revised and expanded Social Security bill. Promptly, he introduced one in Congress...