Word: philadelphia
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...reporters who cover San Francisco's City Hall consider Philadelphia's Councilman Charles Pommer a piker [TIME...
...Philadelphia, 15,000 Negro fans gathered for the annual Lincoln-Howard game, Harvard-Yale game of Negro football (started in 1894). In recent years, Lincoln and Howard, once the Big Two of colored collegiate athletics, have been overshadowed by Johnny-come-lately Negro football teams, but their annual set-to is still the traditional Big Game of the year...
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Up-to-date recording technique makes Composer Strauss's autobiographical "Life of a Hero" scintillate. But Conductor Ormandy's interpretation has not quite the sweep of the performance recorded in 1928 by irascible Willem Mengelberg, to whom the autobiography was dedicated...
Among successful belchers in good society: a New York lawyer who argues cases in court, a Philadelphia magistrate, several teachers. During the past month, Dr. Levin, with Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, has shown belching sound films before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American College of Surgeons. Last week in Manhattan he disclosed to Lawyer Arturo Alessandri, ex-President of Chile, this interesting fact: patients who lose their larynxes do not lose their foreign accent. When they learn to talk in belches, they make the same mistakes...
Most splendiferous museum piece in Philadelphia's tradition-cluttered Independence Square is the twelve-story palace that houses 48-year-old Curtis Publishing Co. Most imposing thing about Curtis Publishing Co. is the combined circulation (8,406,431) of its publications: Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman, Jack & Jill. Much less imposing are Curtis Publishing's dividends to its 18,961 stockholders (as of last...