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...season was Composer Harold J. Rome, who wrote the songs for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union homespun Left revue. Pins and Needles, Rome's Sing Out the News is a custom-tailored, more conservatively cut satire on world events, most of whose pins are safety pins. Recurrent target for its gags, skits, songs, is neither Hitler nor Chamberlain, strikes nor wars, but Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now & then the firecrackers land in F. D. R.'s hair, far oftener in the faces of Republicans and anti-New Dealers. The tycoons take their best beating in Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musicals in Manhattan: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper of European Jocism. Full of zeal against Communism, he seemed less interested in spreading labor unions (of which the Pope and French, and Belgian Jocists are vigorous champions) than in making "immoral" magazines in the U. S. the first target of Jocist artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: Jocism | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Upon leaving Havana intensive training was given in preparation for the actual firing of the four and five inch guns which was to be done by the students themselves under regular officer supervision and target practice conditions. Harvard students acquitted themselves very well in their firing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALES OF MIL. SCI., NAVAL R.O.T.C. CAMPS | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...main event, the 250-target all-gauge shoot, a comparative oldster of 28, Henry Bourne Joy Jr.. turned in an extraordinary performance-a perfect score of 250, something that had never been done before. Skeeter Joy, son of the late Henry B. Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co. and famed skeet pioneer in the Midwest, lost his right eye in a shooting accident five years ago. now shoots left-handed-and better than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeeters | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...ultrashort waves do spray beyond the horizon. When they travel far, however, they become as shifty and unaccountable as ricocheting bullets, cannot be relied upon to hit any particular target. Radiomen are appalled at the cost of setting up a network of ultra-short-wave stations, piping programs from station to station by cable or ordinary short-range radio-relay links. Last week was announced the invention by RCA's Inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of a system designed to eliminate such costly cables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Wave Focus | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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