Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kizer, of the University of Washington's political science department, is the keynote of much of the mail we have received as a result of TIME'S March 17th cover story on Britain's Philosopher-Historian Arnold J. Toynbee and his monumental work on the rise & fall of civilizations...
...Last fall the story was turned over to TIME'S Special Projects department (TIME, Feb. 10). and the background work began. A correspondent from our London bureau interviewed Toynbee's friends, associates, admirers, detractors. A researcher set out to read all of the 3,488 pages of A Study of History, as did the writer assigned to the story. Both of them saw Arnold Toynbee when he arrived here this year to lecture. The writer's problem was how to make this monumental material and complicated thought briefly and clearly communicable...
...lofty plateau of Mexico the rains had begun to fall. They heralded the end of the dry season and of the dust clouds raised by the afternoon wind from the cornfields and the green rows of the maguey. At Balbuena Airport, aerologists scanned their weather charts, for next week Miguel Aléman, 47th President of Mexico, will board the Sacred Cow to fly north on a friendly visit to Harry Truman, his guest last month in the ancient City of Mexico...
Transcribed shows had Big Radio-NBC and CBS-worried. Big Radio's power has always rested chiefly on its near-monopoly of famous entertainers. Last fall, Bing Crosby fled the fold. He recorded his weekly show, sold it to 208 ABC stations-and over the head of at least one big network to some of its member stations. Total Crosby stations: 400. The advantages: Bing can record the show any time he likes, can edit it before it reaches the air. If other big names followed Bing's lead, the big networks might lose control of their affiliates...
...station grew up technically, its staff began carrying on-the-spot coverage of dances, forums, concerts, and athletic events back into the radios of students who, for one reason or another, could not themselves attend. Last fall, WHCN broadcast a play by play report of the Dartmouth football game from Hanover, and plans are being made to cover the Virginia contest next year. In 1941, on the day after Pearl Harbor, the University counted on the Network to relay President Conant's Sanders Theatre address back to men sitting by their radios who could not possibly be accommodated...