Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MARY STEICHEN, M.D. Bellevue Hospital New York City...
Died. Ernest ("Uncle Ernest") Henry Schelling, 63, lanky, walrus-mustached U. S. pianist & composer, for 16 years avuncular if unsensational conductor of New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society's Young People's concerts (for children); suddenly, of cerebral embolism; in Manhattan. At deathbed-side was his four-month bride, Helen Huntington ("Peggy") Marshall Schelling, 21-year-old niece of Mrs. Vincent Astor...
...undoubtedly the people's choice for musical programs. When he has no programs to announce, he has to sit watch in an empty studio, waste his vast voice every 15 minutes or so saying "WJZ, New York" during station breaks. For these exalted and lowdown services, his basic studio salary, after 18 years, is about $80 a week. Commercial jobs pay much more, but Milton Cross's extreme unction is unsuited to most commercial shows, which usually require more extraverted talent...
...night last week the members of the New York Railroad Club sat down to their 67th annual dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. For topflight railroad executives it was a relatively cheery meal. They were still chortling because freight carloadings rose 30% between Sept. 9 and Oct. 21 -the largest increase over the shortest period in U. S. history. Phrases like "this augurs well" cropped up in more than one of the evening's speeches. But to thoughtful men among them, the carloading boom was an ugly fact to face. For it demonstrated that their huge industry cannot...
...this year U. S. department store sales have been 5% over 1938. Last month they were up 6%. Week ending Dec. 2, with Christmas drawing near, they nose-dived a thumping 29% in Boston, 10% in New York City, 5% for the nation. Said the Retail Merchants Associated Board of Trade, Inc.: "We have blamed it on everybody...