Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voices go to seed early. When golden-voiced Enrico Caruso died at 48, he had passed his prime. Jean de Reszke and gut-busting Francesco Tamagno retired at 51. But not yet retired is Giovanni Martinelli, 53, robust, white-mopped tenor who made his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera the year before the War. Never the undisputed best of the Metropolitan's chandelier-jigglers, Martinelli has been a dependable artist in an enormous repertory (57 roles). In two operas, Verdi's Otello and Halevy's La Juive, critics found him first-rate. Although a little...
Smartest. For a while after Dave Stern went to Philadelphia he had little competition from the Record's, smug old rivals. A working newspaperman himself, he made the Record a newsman's sheet, gave it a metropolitan flair that no other paper had. He picked Roosevelt long before Chicago, shrewdly identified himself with New Deal liberalism, did more than any other man to break the Republican stranglehold on Pennsylvania and to sell civic decency to Philadelphia. He has run the Record'?, circulation from 90,000 to 218,000. His men work in a converted loft building...
...Kremlin in person, observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, Godesberg, Munich; British charge d'affaires in Moscow during the difficult spy trial of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers) thought he had a better chance than bigwigs to find the elusive formula, clinch an Anglo-Soviet agreement. The fact that he is no great friend of Russia was also counted upon by the British - who have found themselves on the selling side of the deal - to give...
...Siegel side of the insurance question is considered dynamite by the major networks, but last week Prudential and Metropolitan, the biggest two insurance companies in the U. S., were on the big time air with their side of the story. Their main point: the company agent's functions are so ordered that the best interests of the policyholders must be the agent's, too. Prudential began a five-a-week non-insurance dramatic serial over CBS, called When a Girl Marries, which contents itself with simple commercial testaments to the agent's integrity...
...Metropolitan, already suing WMCA for letting Besdine and Siegel broadcast their stuff, set about dramatizing stories of policyholders who claim to have been victimized by radio insurance counselors. "And, when you finally ask your agent," Commentator Edwin C. Hill tells the radio audience as the episode closes, "you learn you could have gotten that service-without paying a fee-just by consulting your own life insurance agent...