Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor's candidate also gave cause for more than usual concern: witty, urbane Harold Nicolson, author (Curson: The Last Phase, The Congress of Vienna) and ex-diplomat, was a good friend of Winston Churchill, and a recent Labor convert. He campaigned on a well-bred, sporting level, emphasizing his air of mild reasonableness by saying: "I doubt whether Solomon Eagles* himself could arouse this placid community to a sense of urgency and passion...
...daughter (played by Riofreddo's only blonde). Caffari, the bootmaker, playing the senator's role, lifted trembling hands to heaven. Said he: "Though my daughter shall suffer, I will do my duty and speak! I am a Christian!" But the Christians rescue the girl and convert the chief of their persecutors...
...politics. Adams, being an Adams, never got over the fact that what Lincoln really had on his mind that fateful day was the patronage struggle for the Chicago postmastership. *Gandhi, like Lincoln, had his family sorrows. His first son Hiralal, who drinks, was estranged from Gandhi, was once a convert to Islam. Last week second son Manilal was in Durban, South Africa...
...nipped SR's development in the blueprint. But this week in the Saturday Review of Literature, Dr. Rolf Kaltenborn, son of Radiorator H. V. Kaltenborn and SR's most active convert, reported that Subscription Radio was about to have a "Pioneer Network . . . of ten regular broadcasting stations." Kaltenborn claimed to have "sufficient funds" to get his network started...
...arrival of FM radio was a big help. With conventional AM, the static from any passing streetcar could distort a "fax" page. FM made for smooth reception, but it raised an intriguing question. Since a broadcaster could convert to facsimile for $10,000 to $15,000, what was to prevent anyone with an FM license from going into the newspaper business...