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...Eager Beaver. In Atlanta, Mosky Yalovitz absentmindedly placed his new $12.50 hat on a counter in his own store, later discovered that an eager clerk had sold it for a buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...opposite political pole), talented, ambitious Frank Owen had been a Liberal M.P. at 23, the socialist editor of the imperialist Evening Standard at 32, a soldier correspondent at 37. His latest professional hurdle took him from his prewar job with Lord Beaverbrook into the camp of the Beaver's keenest journalistic rival, Lord Rothermere. Some Tory friends of Rothermere's thought he was on a sticky wicket in hiring (for a reported $40,000 a year) "that notorious leftist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Cheer Up Too | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...Eager Beaver. In Granville, Wis., the town's only paid fireman, Calvin Shult. confessed to 100 false alarms, explained that he wanted to promote enough business to justify a pay raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Frank G. Balch, 3rd '49--Patsy Dimmitt (Beaver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Goers and Guests | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

Detlev, F. Vaghts '49--Toni Packman (Beaver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Goers and Guests | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

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