Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, Lowell meets Dudley and Adams takes on Winthrop at Soldiers Field at 3:15 o'clock. The lineup for Lowell is Wurtele and Hunter, ends; Morse and Thurston, tackles; Call and Hauss, guards; Clark, center; Blotner, Gordon, Lyford, and Conroy backs...
...chance because he had what we would call "the gift of gab" and, more important, what we would call "pull." He succeeded because he had courage and because he was lucky...
...ecstatic appreciation of Walt Disney. The other, a testimonial to telegraph operators, amazed even its author. "I am not very good at singing praises," he concludes, "having very little practice, and I hardly know what has prompted me to this extraordinary outburst of sweetness toward my fellow man. Just call it a change of pace...
...Army Engineering Corps and WPA labor to get the new Washington National Airport under way. A mile further downriver than the present field, the site lies three and a half miles from the centre of the capital, ten minutes away via the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway. Immediate plans call for a 750-acre field, 500 acres to be "made" with fill dredged from the river bottom and graded off shore eminences. Conceived as a model for future airport improvement throughout the country, Washington National Airport will have four 5,000 foot runways each 150 to 200 feet wide, providing unobstructed...
...fortnight he virtually lived in Studio 9, on call 15 hours a day. He slept at the nearby Harvard Club (his Brooklyn home was too far away) or in his office across the hall from the studio itself. His blue-eyed wife. Baroness Olga von Norden-flycht, brought hot food and coffee to his desk, occasionally led him outdoors for a walk and fresh air. His earliest broadcast was at 5 a. m., his latest at 11 p. m. After each talk he received a batch of letters. Their gist: in times of stress, listeners prefer conclusions and even bias...