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There are exceptions. Some stations merely hired "disk-jockeys" to ride herd on swing records, in the traditional milkman's matinee style. WJZ, New York, evolved a six-hour, all-musical program in which every word except the news flashes is sung. A chorus, jam band and harpsichord render the station breaks in such senseless jingles as this...
...arts was choir singing. But the New England Repertory production of Willer's play brings one very close to Grover's Corners, N. H. The pipe-smoking stage manager seems to have found his old haunts under the sagging roof beams of the Joy Street Playhouse. Even the milkman who bustles across the stage seems to be making his rounds for the umpteenth time...
...company. With corncob pipe in mouth and a copy of the play in hand, he takes the audience by the arm and points out the simple charms of Grover's Corners. He introduce the Gibb's and the Webbs; Joe Crowell, the paper boy; Howie Newsome, the milkman. He shows you Simno Stimson, the drunkard organist, whose life is like a pathetic symphony with a tragic coda. These are the common folk of "Our Town," brought to life you by a sincere and enthusiastic cast. You may find faults; there are moments when Rowland Bishop's Dr.Gibbs is just...
...they passed the bill. Over another veto they passed another bill giving the Superintendent of Elections the right to call on the State police to patrol Hudson (and Essex) County elections. They also passed a bill which revised the handling of election offenses. Then they went home with the milkman...
...Antonio, a barber shop, a milkman, four gasoline stations and the ball park noticed a slump in business since Hitler invaded France. Said Phoenix Refining Co. of its 50% slump, "war jitters." Southern Prison Co., having had to raise its bid on a new New York State prison because of war uncertainty, heard that New York State had rejected all bids as too high...