Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short, blond, athletic-looking, 21-year-old Burton Griffin works by night in the stock room of Vega's Burbank (Calif.) plant, goes to bed with the dawn. One morning last week young Griffin couldn't sleep; a wild idea chased through his mind. Finally it drove him to put on his clothes, hustle off to the plant to tell his boss. Soon 1,500 questioned employes of Lockheed-Vega voted to put it in practice. The idea: "I got to thinkin' about Christmas and about all those bombers we're making for the British...
Dean Willard Sperry of the Divinity School and Chairman of the Board of Preachers presided at the dinner at which the Rev. Frederick Robertson Griffin, Minister of the First Church, Unitarlau, in Philladelphia and preacher at the services in the Appleton Chapel this week also spoke...
Included in the appointments were: S. Howard Armstrong Jr., of New York City, M.D. '37; Donald R. Griffin, B.S. '38; John A. Moore, of Clayton, Mo., A.B. '38; Francis M. Rogers, of New Bedford, A.M. '37; and James G. Baker, of Shelbyville, Ky., M.A. '36 (appointment renewed...
...Knows?, on a four-station MBS network for Griffin's shoe polish Saturday nights 8:30 to 8:45 E.S.T., is the latest thing in radio ghost stories. Its talebearer is gaunt, ghost-grey Dr. Hereward Carrington, director of the American Psychical Institute, an oldtime spook-hunter who likes to spend his vacations in haunted houses. Last week Who Knows? spun a yarn about a composer who came back after death with the finale to a concerto left unfinished at his death. This week a Scotland Yard detective solves a murder mystery by premonition. The trade's handy...
...outshone by Griffin, Shinola shoe polish also took to the air last Saturday (10 to 10:30 a.m. E.S.T., NBC-Red) with Play Actor Burgess Meredith (a radio serial alumnus) in a weekly series called Lincoln Highway. Last week's pedestrian episode along the famed 3,400-mile, coast-to-coast road was a low-budget It Happened One Night, whose boy-girl hitchhikers fall in love in a barn near Valparaiso (Ind.), instead of in a tourist cabin...