Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conditioned Park Avenue office, said Picture Post's Hastings, "is equipped with a dictaphone, a telephone extension system which takes 20 incoming calls at the same time, and a brass spittoon. Joe has no use for the latter, but the utensil is traditional in every public place in America." For breakfast he has coffee, toast, fruit juice and cereal; for dinner, swordfish...
...opera fans the first public appearance of a new soprano or tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions...
...most radio listeners, however, a third man in Box 44 is synonymous with opera itself. He is 42-year-old Milton John Cross, a huge, humble, bespectacled, music-charmed announcer whose cultured, genuflecting voice seems to his public to come straight from NBC's artistic soul. Radio listeners hear a tremolo of anticipation when Milton Cross's bated, bass-viol voice tells them: "The house lights are being dimmed. In a moment the great gold curtain will...
...public wants to see Society, it can go to the opening of the opera. If it wants to see movie stars, it can hang on the ropes at any Hollywood opening. But if it wants to see tycoons, the place to look is at the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. Last week the heavy cream of tycoonery floating on a Grade A selection of 2,500 substantial U. S. businessmen poured through the lobbies of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between sessions of N. A. M.'s 44th three-day Congress of American Industry...
...public opinion refuses to accept railroads as monopolies although, perversely, it approves having the Interstate Commerce Commission regulate them as such...