Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Passing the Buck...
TIME, June 30, says that Buck Rogers was "created" 29 years ago by Robert C. Dille's father. In 1928 a story entitled Armageddon -2419 was published. The author of it was Phillip Francis Nowlan. Shortly thereafter, John Dille contacted Mr. Nowlan and asked him if he would be willing to have stories syndicated in strip form. Mr. Nowlan agreed, and changed the name of his principal character from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. From then until his death in 1940, Mr. Nowlan was credited with being the creator and author of Buck Rogers, 25th Century. It was drawn...
...benefactor. That done, the Administration was stuck with whatever Goldfine might really turn out to be. What Bernard Goldfine turned out to be in his testimony last week before the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (see Investigations) was a cheap and devious character-a fast man with a buck, whether to manipulate the financial fortunes of his numerous mills and real estate holdings or to distribute gifts to public employees, mostly little, who might do him some good in his chronic run-ins with Government...
...Horse-Radish." "More platter, less chatter!" cries Manager Ben Strouse of Washington, D.C.'s eminently profitable WWDC, which features "Lucky Buck" giveaways. "All network radio is good for is to supply soap opera to a dwindling number of little old ladies weaned on that sort of thing." As for the independents' news coverage, Bill Shaw, manager of San Francisco's booming KSFO, snorts: "People are more interested in a fire down the street than in the Lebanon crisis...
...tried to take over in a corporate fight. Usually he makes his money by buying stock cheap in a sick company, selling out after he has done his bit to make the company and stock strong. "You don't always have to do everything for a fast buck," he says. "I'll take mine slower." Landa has never been slow to get his hands on money. He inherited $200,000 from his mother, spent part of it studying psychology under Sigmund Freud in Vienna, playwriting under George Pierce Baker at Yale, law at George Washington University...