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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Headed for a New York honeymoon, Mr. & Mrs. David Fromal of Newport News, Va. parked their car in the wrong place in Baltimore, were held up for four days and had their car impounded because Fromal had forgotten the registration card. To make amends, Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro gave them the key to the city, paid their fine, saw that they got their car back. The Baltimore News-Post wined & dined them, gave them theater tickets. The Fromals decided to finish their honeymoon in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Radio. Directors of RCA promoted Frank M. Folsom, 54, from executive vice president to president, on the say-so of Chairman David Sarnoff, who has been doubling as president. A merchandising expert for over 30 years, Folsom was once a vice president of Montgomery Ward, served as assistant chief of Navy procurement for nearly two years during World War II, and joined RCA in 1944. Folsom, who will share top responsibility with Sarnoff (still chief executive officer), was full of beans about television. Said he: "Television is ... two years ahead of the most optimistic post-war forecasts . . . Today there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Miss Cam was introduced by Professor David E. Owen, chairman of the Department of History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cam Installed as First Woman Professor | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

...David Drake '52 held a meeting in his room last night to get signatures on a petition favoring the owl. The petition asks the Student Council to give official approval to the presence of the owl in the Yard, in view of the interest and attraction caused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asks Owl Sanction; Murder Plot Falls Through | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

Others following this lead more or less were Richard Edelman, Melvin Brown, Bruce Recker, Gene Edlin (a poll-taker), and David "a shot with every beer" Fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neither Owls, Spies, Jazz, Nor Freshman Smokers . . . | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

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