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...tap-room every night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 3/13/1940 | See Source »

...Columnist Westbrook Pegler, repeating an incessant Washington rumor that accused FBI of collecting secret dossiers on most of official Washington, snarled: "The FBI cooperates with police departments which tap wires of family telephones and even, in one incredible case . . . took phonograph records and moving pictures, on suspicion, of conversations and scenes within the bedroom of husband and wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Policeman's Lot | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...Show (sketches & lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, music by Morgan Lewis; produced by Gertrude Macy & Stanley Gilkey). Tap-happy and tuneful, Two For The Show popped open like a bottle of champagne with a skit on The Man Who Came To Dinner. From then on an ebullient cast banged, blared, danced and gabbed merrily into first-night favor. Richard Haydn, who can imitate a fish, gave an imitation of a Cockney lecturer on cookery; as he sucked in his "h's" he almost showed his gills. Blonde Betty Hutton, ballyhooed as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug," shook the props...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Milenberg Joys (Tommy Dorsey: Victor). Best Tommy Dorsey that ever came out of the hot tap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia's Hole | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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