Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Theater of the Air (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). The Mikado...
...Workable Adjustment. The noted Lincoln biographer, James G. Randall, holds that the Civil War was the work of a "blundering generation," stirred up by "fanaticism" and "warmaking agitation." Other "revisionists," e.g., Professor Avery Craven of the University of Chicago, argue that slavery would have broken down of its own weight, that the war was made inevitable as a result of irresponsible leadership by power-driven politicians. What those leaders should have done, adds Columbia University's Allan Nevins, "was to furnish a workable adjustment" between the North & South...
...Aurex Corp. of Chicago last week announced a new gadget for increasing the hearing range of people with normal hearing. It might also do for eavesdroppers what binoculars have done for Peeping Toms. The "Opeara Glass" was invented by Aurex' Walter H. Huth. The little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among...
...Chicago Bears 38, Philadelphia...
...Chicago Cardinals 39, Green...