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Furthermore, if timid Mr. Caspar Milquetoast should sit down next to him in a train and commence, out of nervousness, to talk about the weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Nash, Rash | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY-Victor Canning-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in the back, he is stolen with the car. His subsequent adventures remind readers of J. B. Priestley's hearty-humorous The Good Companions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Fiction: Jan. 21, 1935 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...newly organized Rifle Club had its first match against Natrona High School of Caspar, Wyoming, during the early part of last week, but as it is a long way to Wyoming, there has been no announcement of the winning team, and the boys from Natrona are also presumably still wondering how they made out. Thus the idea of the postal matches is a great help to the club's treasury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rifle Team Faces Princeton, But Tiger 300 Miles Away | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Under the lead of its president, Parkman D. Howe '37, the Harvard Rifle Club last night pried the lid off its 1935 season. A postal shoot with Natrona High School of Caspar, Wyoming, formed the first match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rifle Club Opens Season in Match With Wyoming School | 11/27/1934 | See Source »

...sums ranging from $15 a week for Caspar, Wyo. to $1,000 a week for Yankee Network, the stations receive up to 50,000 words a day of finished news stories, ready for reading by the announcer. At almost any hour the station chooses, it can have enough fresh news for a 15-minute broadcast. It can, and occasionally does, scoop the official Press-Radio Bureau on such news as the Stoll kidnapping, the assassination of King Alexander, the extradition of Bruno Richard Hauptmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Ink & Air | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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