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...Harvard Radio Workshop will present a radio play, "The World" by special arrangement with the author. Arch Oboler, at 9 o'clock tomorrow night. The play deals with two people who are spending their honeymoon on top of the Empire State Building when the world come...
Long a mainstay of Britain's ultraconservative Royal Academy, Artist Brangwyn is best known in the U.S. for his arch-academic murals in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (R.C.A. Building's lobby). Sir Frank once fell afoul of British womanhood when he was misreported as having criticized the British female figure. What he actually said: "An Eve-I want an Eve. Where is there an Eve symbolic of her sex?" Result: a mass demonstration of shapely women in the streets of his native village (Ditchling, Sussex...
Pierre Monteux is also one of the very few Frenchmen whose favorite composer is the arch-Germanic Johannes Brahms. San Franciscans have marveled at the Rhine wine savor of his Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann, as well as the elegance of his Debussy and Ravel. Pierre Monteux's ranging tastes and orchestral mastery have come to him during a lifetime in which he has conducted no less than 63 symphony orchestras in Europe...
...spring this trap, so cunningly prepared by the arch-criminals of our times, we shall destroy not only the city of the Popes and capital of Christendom . . . but destroy our own prestige and thereby make a decent peace almost impossible. Countless millions of people in Europe and in South America would turn resolutely from the nation which . . . dared to raze the beloved shrines of the Christian centuries...
Died. Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, 47, homicide's tycoon (Murder, Inc.), arch-racketeer; in the electric chair; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y., eight years after his conviction for the murder of clothing trucker Joseph Rosen. Fawnlike. liquid-eyed, Russian-born son of an immigrant herring-peddler, he stole from Manhattan East Side pushcarts almost as soon as he held his first job. Racketeering he regarded as a kind of extension of normal business methods. During the late '20s and early '30s Lepke gradually established himself as violence's master-middleman between labor unions and industry...