Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...recently become the victim of an intensified newspaper campaign, crammed full with foul blows, rabbit punches, and lots of hitting on the breaks. The Boston professional mud-slingers demand that the Big. Three subsidize football players; actually what these bright columnists need is a few whacks with a ring post. It would be the only way to make an impression on their tough skulls. Colonel Dave (Boston Biowtorch) Egan is an old standby in the axe-grinding business, and his newest disciple is Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post. What a strange pair of bedfellows they make...
...Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, U. S. Army Reserve Corps, general manager of the New York Times, publisher of the Chattanooga Times. Called at his own request, Colonel Adler forthwith gave himself a one-year leave of absence from both his papers. This week he took command of his post: the reception centre for draftees at Fort...
...National Committee was born of the cheap symphonic recordings put on sale two winters ago by the New York Post. The recordings spread through the land, sold more than 1,000,000 copies. The Post's promotion firm, Publishers Service Co. Inc., still manages the record sales. pays salaries to Mr. Erskine and two other Committee executives, buys the broiled chicken and green peas at the Committee dinners-of which there will be plenty, for the Committee now has 75 local branches. In its 18 months of existence, the Committee, after the manufacturer (RCA Victor) and Publishers Service...
...means bad, may well increase U. S. music appreciation. Among the recording artists are Metropolitan Opera Tenors Armand Tokatyan and Raoul Jobin, Basso Norman Cordon. Among the operas so far released, Carmen is the best; Faust is a series of seemingly arbitrary selections. For each opera the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff has written readable notes...
...most important figures in the history of American sculpture. Among his outstanding accomplishments can be listed the characterization of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, the "Concord Minute Man," and his six figures on the doors of the Boston Public Library. According to the classifications made by Professor Post, French belongs to the "more American" group of sculptors; the continental influence is less discernable in his work than in statues by men like Gutzon Borglum and Barnard, who were strongly affected by the formful litheness of Rodin, the magnificent Frenchman...