Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs : LIFE, in its issue of May 16, carries an advertisement of TIME, which tells of the editors, writers, researchers and correspondents of the new Radio Department, who have for three months been exploring the field. They are described as having gathered news "from London, where television has failed dismally." Some member of your team has surely betrayed you here. Any of the many thousands of people, who watched on the television screen Bois Roussel make his winning dash in the Derby, or Eddie Phillips knocking out Ben Foord in the ninth round, or Donald Budge playing at Wimbledon, could...
...radius of 75 miles, WQXR today broadcasts more quality music per hour than any other station in the U. S., holds the position of No. 1 station for serious Manhattan music-lovers. Its estimated 53,000 listening families are among the most faithful and regular in the radio field. Of its 74-odd weekly hours of broadcasting about 63 are devoted to music, 40 of them to symphonic and other serious compositions, 17 to light classics, six to popular tunes. Swing bands, comedians, amateur hours and similar big drawing cards of the larger stations are taboo on WQXR...
Amateur Fights (Wed. 11:15 p.m. NBC-Blue). Bouts between Chicago's Catholic Youth Organization boxers and a team from Ireland, at Soldier Field...
...Original developer of the modern field of personal financing were the Morris Plan banks. Two years ago New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora ordered Founder A. J. Morris and four other directors of Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, to pay stockholders $400,000 they had made in a side-deal (TIME, Nov. 30, 1936). Last week the Appellate Division unanimously reversed Judge Pecora, found "no dereliction of duty...
Frank Masterson, 28, an ambitious Chicagoan who entered his father's contracting firm few years ago, soon tired of that job, wanted a business of his own. In December a Marshall Field & Co. advertisement of traveling bags piqued his curiosity; he found that plenty of people came to look, few to buy. Luggage, he decided, was too expensive to sell readily. He wondered why no one had thought of renting it. Visiting railroad and airline offices, steamship and travel bureaus, he planted an idea: if vacationists could skimp on luggage, perhaps they would splurge on trips. In partnership with...