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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until last summer, when the colonel took over the Bob Hawk quiz show for six weeks, that radio listeners noticed him again. The show zoomed up twelve places one week to the nation's top Hooperating. Bandleader Vaughn Monroe heard him, signed him to a seven-year contract...
...find new ways to make radio programs, records and juke boxes play cash-jingling tunes on his union till. His edict against recording did not sound like a true pitch to the broadcasting and recording companies. It sounded more like bargaining bluster. His Dec. 31 deadline coincides with contract renewal time for the record 'makers...
Green Light. After an 18-day strike, 173 pilots of American Overseas Airlines went back to work and a contract was signed. The company made an ominous announcement: midwinter operations, which would reduce by one-third the number of transatlantic nights, would begin two months ahead of schedule. For this reason "not all" of the 1,325 employees laid off during the pilots' strike would be recalled...
...etudes is typical of the result. Not that there aren't any good interpreters of Chopin. What few records were made by the late greats Friedman and Rosenthal have not been reissued; Brailowsky has made few records for either Victor or Columbia, although he has been under contract to both; a rising genius, Din Lipatti has started on the works of Chopin for English Columbia but has not appeared...
Before the week is out a council of twelve, ten of them leading experts in special academic fields, will meet to determine peacetime uses for the University's mechanical calculator. Still under contract to the U.S. Navy, the "mechanical brain" which proved its applicability to the problems of death throughout the war is now to be turned to the uses of life. The faculty committee, named yesterday and headed by Provost Buck, is charged with deciding whether the peacetime occupation of the device will be in the social or natural sciences. Represented in the group are the fields of astrophysics...