Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donnell of the New York Daily News, William Harlan Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News, the Baltimore Sun's, Frank Richardson Kent Jr. (son of tart Washington Correspondent Frank Richardson Kent). Both the Los Angeles Times and Columbia Broadcasting System were represented by an ex-sportswriter, Bill Henry. National Broadcasting Co. chose 58-year-old Brigadier General Henry Joseph Reilly, U. S. A. (retired), who commanded an infantry brigade in France in World War I. Mutual Broadcasting System sent Arthur Mann, once of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost of his specially trained horse (even more necessary to a calf roper than trained ponies are to a poloist). If he competes at steer...
...Evanston, Ill., Northwestern-exhibiting their precious new Wildcat, highly touted Bill de Correvont, who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High two years ago-discovered that they needed more than de Correvont's swivel hips to make a bid for the Big Ten title. Against Oklahoma, Big Six champions last year, the Wildcats were stampeded...
...agencies that helped pay the bill for Louisianians' fun was the National Youth Administration, which gave 525 L. S. U. students up to $25 a month. The man who handed out this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner of the Heidelberg Hotel, where Huey Long used to live. One day two months ago George Heidelberg hailed a cabdriver, told him to drive to a saloon. Said he: "I'll have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg...
When he goes home at night to his Elizabethan house in swank Palmer Woods, he likes to stay there and read (history and biography) and before bedtime to go for a walk. Sometimes on his walks he meets husky President Bill Knudsen of General Motors or Director Pete Martin of Ford, both neighbors, but he seldom sees them otherwise. He is too busy and so are they...