Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think the man or woman who wrote the piece might like to know that at least ten years ago my good friend Hoagland ("Hoagy") Carmichael wrote tunes titled Hell on the Mayflower, After I Called You a Wheel. There were others in the same genre, but these are enough to show that this screwball kind of number is not new. And I'll bet Hoagy's are better, sound unheard...
...Vincent Bendix has risen from a Postal Telegraph messenger to head the $31,000,000 Bendix Aviation Corp., which makes at least one part of every U. S. automobile (starters, four-wheel brakes, air brakes, carburetors, air horns), also makes precision instruments of many kinds for airplanes. Last January when the epidemic of airplane crashes focused attention on radio beams, direction finders, loop antennae, etc., etc. (TIME, Jan. 25), Vincent Bendix decided to capitalize on it by amalgamating his radio interests into Bendix Radio Corp., biggest concern of its kind in the world. He bought 100 acres at Teterboro...
...WHEEL OF FORTUNE-Alberto Moravia-Viking...
...Wheel of Fortune is a surprising book. It sets out like a society farce, develops into the psychological realism of a Stendhal novel, ends like a Dostoievskian drama. And the whole thing leaves an impression as unmistakably Italian as a plaster wall painted to look like marble. A tour de force of remarkable virtuosity, this story of a woman's disintegration will linger in readers' minds as a clever analysis but not a revelation...
...readers of Wheel of Fortune might find it hard to imagine how such a strictly non-political novel could be considered out of line, even in such a rectilinear country as Duceland. But, though the book was not suppressed, the Italian press gave it not a single mention. Reason: The ruler of Rome's hive does not approve of such Roman drones as Moravia writes about, prefers to ignore their existence...