Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoopla that accompanied Stanley's mission to Africa, it was a secret affair compared to the electronic safari that serpentined through French Equatorial Africa last week under the intrepid leadership of TV's Arthur Godfrey. Not only did Godfrey overcome serious communications hazards to beam regular bureeek reports back home for his millions of listeners but, where Stanley merely found Livingstone, Godfrey & Friends achieved the heretofore unheard-of feat of introducing underarm deodorant to the people of the Dark Continent. For a static-free report of the mission, see TV-RADIO, White Hunter...
...winner of the $10,000 Longacres Mile at Seattle in 1939. He was appointed to the Washington State Horse Racing Commission by Democratic Governor Clarence D. Martin in 1939, and was named chairman by Democratic Governor Monrad C. Wallgren in 1945. (In between, he was fired by Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie in 1941, and he was refired by Langlie...
...people," said the announcer. The bleeeeep was Arthur Godfrey amid the flora and fauna of French Equatorial Africa, where he was stalking wild game and piping an occasional short-wave transmission into 4,000,000 American homes. Before he left the U.S., Godfrey got FCC and French government authority to make his broadcasts, and rival RCA assigned him four of its commercial frequencies. ("A helluva favor," said Godfrey. "Fine thing for good will, too.") This week Godfrey was flying home with a big surprise for "the people": a bristling red mustache and beard...
...members of the committee besides Roosevelt are Edwin Ginn '18, Robert H. Montgomery, Lispenard Phister, Fred Roberts, and Kenneth Robertson '29 from Boston, and William I. Robertson '31 and Arthur Harlow '25 from New York...
...college education is supposed to teach a student to think, but does the U.S. college succeed in teaching him to think for himself? Not nearly enough, says Dartmouth's Dean of Faculty Arthur E. Jensen. "Normally, the student goes through college with two crutches: the professor and the textbook. When he graduates, he sometimes stops his education because he no longer has those crutches." Last week, after two years of study, the Dartmouth faculty approved a series of reforms that it hopes will change all that. Chief proposals...