Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...games and announcing the second-string events. In 1940 he had a chance to telecast the New York World's Fair Soap Box Derby. In & out of television ever since, he deserted radio for good last November and bet on video as a full-time career...
Died. Louise Homer, 76, onetime (1898-1932) contralto in the Metropolitan's Golden Era of Caruso, Melba, Farrar, Scotti, Tetrazzini; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Daughter of a Pennsylvania minister, she launched her career at 14 by singing Ruth in a church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted...
Died. Jeff D. Milton, 85, oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...
...This newspaper had been founded by a group of solid businessmen turned publishers. Like other publishers since, they were presently bewildered to discover that their paper had been infiltrated by socialists and was being used as a mouthpiece for revolutionary ideas. Marx lost his job. Then began his lifelong career as an expatriate and professional revolutionist...
When Professor Pound missed the first meeting of his undergraduate Government 43 course this term, it was the second time in his teaching career that he did not keep an appointment. He had merely failed to note it on his calendar amid the confusion of College and Law School opening dates...