Word: bickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like grandstand experts naming their All-American football teams, leading editors of the U. S. select the Ten Biggest News Stories of the year. Last week President Karl A. Bickel of the United Press, General Manager Kent Cooper of Associated Press, and President Frank E. Mason of International News Service announced their lists, agreed unanimously on only three: Robert Tyre Jones's four-fold golf victories. The Columbus, Ohio, prison fire. The crash of the R-101. The finding of the bodies of Arctic Explorer Andree and his companions, which developed into something of a Hearst scoop (TIME, Sept...
Light Wines & Beer. This play was produced seven years ago under the name of The Good Old Days. Charles Winninger and George Bickel acted in it then. The present edition is acted by Al Shean (once of Gallagher & Shean) and Sam Bernard II, nephew of the late famed Sam Bernard. The story is about two honest saloonkeepers, one of whom feels justified in maintaining his resort after the passage of the 18th Amendment. The plot is further flavored by a love affair between the children of the two publicans and by the entrance of hijackers. It ends happily. For folk...
...Acme News Pictures, Inc., a Scripps-Howard enterprise (like United Press. X. E. A., Telegram, etc.) was not invited. President Karl Bickel of United Press heard about it, hurriedly telephoned Col. Lindbergh, received belated admittance for Acme, an apology, an invitation to luncheon. ? Ridder papers: New York Staats-Zcitung, Herald, Journal of Commerce, Jamaica (N. Y.), Long Island Press. Seattle Times (minority interest), St. Paul Dispatch, Pioneer Press; Aberdeen, S. Dak. American, News...
Even less privacy than that of the Duke of York is enjoyed by his elder brother, Edward of Wales, Crown Prince. If every newspaper in Britain watches the Duke of York's family, every news agency in the world watches Wales. President Karl August Bickel of the United Press last year bracketed the Prince with his father, George V, as the world's No. 2 news figure (after the U. S. President). Edward of Wales, attending another London banquet of last week, at the Carlton Club in honor of this year's Walter Hines Page Fellows (Robert Paine Scripps...
Senator & Mrs. Guglielmo Marconi on his yacht Electra anchored off Civitavecchia, Italy, talked via wireless telephone with President Karl August Bickel of the United Press, President David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. of America, and President M. H. Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co., all in Manhattan. The conversation was broadcast. After Senator Marconi had expressed confidence in trans-Atlantic telephone television, international broadcasting and had commented on the new radio station abuilding at Vatican city (TIME, April 21), said Dona Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scala Marconi to President Sarnoff: "Have you heard the news...