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...Variety inform me as to what has caused the music of Richard Wagner to almost entirely disappear from the air lanes? If our people have no "reaction" against it, who then is denying radio audiences the greatest dramatic music ever written...
...every period of sweeping change, life outruns its popular interpreters. Happenings come too fast; old familiar actors on the stage of history are whisked away and disappear; newcomers crowd in, get half through their opening lines and vanish with a dull thud and a gurgle...
...chairs, for they are specialists in the universe of knowledge. Many Catholics are inclined to apologize for them; but I think that is unwise. They are embarrassing but not significant, and quite harmless as long as their tantrums do not lead them to break the furniture. They will disappear in time like those other exhibitionists - the marathon dancers and flagpole sitters - who amused America for a while and vanished...
...during his half-century in the Near East. He was also pioneering the Berlin-to-Bagdad Railroad, and serving as the Kaiser's confidential intelligence agent. One of the world's greatest authorities on Bedouins, Baron von Oppenheim still loves to don their dress and disappear among them for long periods...
...unsold True Story magazines, padding circulation an average of 75,540 copies a month. For the first four months True Story's real circulation was well over the 2,000,000 guaranteed advertisers. But thereafter it fell below the guarantee and distributors really started making unsold copies disappear: in May they "ate" 57,218 copies; in December, 210,271. As late as November, True Story still solemnly reaffirmed its 2,000,000 guarantee...