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Alfred Wallenstein, sometime concert cellist, has been musical director of Newark, N. J.'s station WOR (Mutual network) for five years. Long ago he disabused the station's management of their theory that Bach was too high-brow for their listeners; long ago he began putting new compositions on the air. Last week Director Wallenstein for the 300th time gave a work its radio debut...
...lonely outposts at Effingham, Ill. and Sexton Summit, Ore., in the busy, bright-lighted teletype room at Newark Airport, in hundreds of other stations along the Civil Aeronautics Authority's 30,000-mile wire circuit, the machines broke off their cabalistic sequence of weather symbols one morning last week...
...Schultz" went from beer-running to the numbers racket and in his heyday treated Tammany Boss James J. Hines as his stooge. If Gang Rule In New York contained nothing else, it would be note worthy for preserving the full stenographic record of Schultz's deathbed ravings in Newark City Hospital on Oct. 24, 1935, after a hole had been blown in his side by a .45-calibre automatic. Excerpts...
Department of History and Political Science University of Delaware Newark...
Born 44 years ago in Elizabeth, N. J., Mitchell went to work for Newark's Journal when the Mitchell family could no longer stand his rehearsing amateur parts at home. The Journal could not stand the retractions and libel suits its imaginative new hand kept getting his paper into. Later other papers felt the same way. So young Tom switched to vaudeville. Then he landed a job with Ben Greet's Shakespearean players, followed by two years of carrying Shakespeare to U. S. college campuses in the company of Charles Coburn. By 1920, Mitchell had played some...