Word: fielden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making St. Columba's 1,400-year-old prophecy look better & better. Under his guidance the grey stones of the abbey, fallen into ruin after the Reformation, are rising again, and Iona's fertile soil has once more become dedicated ground. Sandy-mustached Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, 51, is no medievalist nor sentimental ruin-regarder. His purpose is hardly less ambitious than St. Columba's: to eventually awaken Scotland and England to a new concept and practice of religion. To many a Scottish Presbyterian, he seems a worthy successor to the Celtic saint himself...
...from Company 3 seemed to predominate in contrast with their very poor showing at the dance of last Saturday night. Perhaps the fact that this dance is froe had something to do with it. Anyway, the gals seemed to enjoy the presence of G.L. Johnson, Jennings, Walther, Cross, Clark, Fielden, Pugh, Riter, Hein and many others...
...dead mike. The two companies had a known audience of only 3,000 licensed radiowners. The Government of India stepped in, in 1930 bought the two stations, established All-India Radio (AIR). Two years later BBC began broadcasting its Empire programs to India and in 1935 sent smart Lionel Fielden out to make India more radio-minded...
Hampered by official red tape, Fielden hired to help him tall, twinkle-eyed Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari, who, as a translator for the Army, had become an adept red-tape dodger. By introducing a series of talks on "Widow Remarriage," "Untouchability," etc. he shocked the orthodox public into listening to his Bombay station. Objections were many and various. His assistant was kidnapped, mortified by being left in a bathing suit on top of a hill...
...London rushed Bokhari to organize publicity, reorganize BBC programs for his countrymen. A friend of Gandhi, Bose, Nehru and other top notchers in the Indian National Congress, Bokhari hopes to make "freedom of India" the focal point of all his broadcasts. Aiding him, is his old boss Lionel Fielden...