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When Scripps died, Hearst's International News Service hired Jimmy Young, sent him to Japan at 23 to run the Tokyo bureau. Curly-haired, stocky Newsman Young had a healthy zest for his job, a healthy sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Japanese Justice | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...shop in the Yard, Seniors will be offered a chance to sit down for two three-hour sessions and tell all they know about everything. At first shot, sandwiched in between these and divisionals, this looks like too much of a good thing--even Information Please would lose its zest after the fifth hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFORMATION PLEASE | 3/13/1940 | See Source »

...figures for the 1939-40 season have indicated big increases in radio listening, generally traced to: 1) a war-inspired zest for news; 2) better shows. In January, tuners stuck closer to their radios than ever before, probably because of the U. S. cold snap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Tuesday Night | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Perhaps the production at the Copley doesn't have the slickness of the Tremont Street plays, but once it gets started it has plenty of zest, and backed by the fine Kaufman-Ferber script, it's a pretty good show...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother Rat and What a Life, and for the same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle, or run out of gas before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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