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...around the clock, as other men began to arrive in Army & Navy hospitals, the daytime audience was losing its simplicity. That audience has always been considered as "the housewife." To sell her, the agencies have loaded the networks from dawn to dark with soap operas or, in radio lingo, "washboard weepers." Listed last week were no less than 65 of these daytime serials. They had about 80% of daylight network time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: State of Broadcasting | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Williams, it was the first institution in the U.S. for training Negro nurses and interns. A number of white industrialists gave money for a frame house and 13 beds; local Negroes donated such necessities as 8 Ib. of prunes, 8 Ib. of feathers, a bottle of Holland gin, a washboard, a pair of crutches, four cakes of soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From Gin to Gastroscope | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...Blue Ridge and the Cumberland, a perennial visitor for 25 years has been a lean, loquacious man, with a slight British accent and a portable recording apparatus. Grey-haired Arthur Edward Satherly is paymaster, musical coach, father confessor to the blues singers, hillbilly fiddlers, guitar-strummers, jug-players, washboard-slappers who make Columbia's Okeh* records by the dozen. In this grass-roots musical field, only Decca competes with Columbia. Decca's hillbilly man is David Kapp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...Opry Company are a half-dozen ensembles with sour-mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the balladeers, jug players, mouth-organists, fiddlers, washboard knucklers, accordionists, comb-hummers, etc. It is a weekly fiesta, Southern style, for hill folk from the Great Smokies, croppers, tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opry Night | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...forget, however, that regardless of what's behind him, be it tin-can or washboard, Jack is considered by most musicians to be one of the greatest and most sincere musicians around. In fact, this reviewer, amongst others, feels that Jack is virtually to the white musicians what Louis Armstrong is to the colored. And the real compliment to his playing genius is that everybody that has ever worked with him perks up his ears when Jack plays--which for pro musicians is something...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

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