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...show opens with a five-minute news summary, followed by sport results, a nationwide weather rundown ("People in New York seem to want to know whether it's raining in Omaha"), and an interview with a guest who may be a fashion designer or a Connecticut tobacco grower. Finally, there is a twelve-minute news package delivered by Garroway, Jim Fleming and Jack Lescoulie ("We have three commentators-no waiting"). The second hour of Today is pretty much a repeat of the first, and a third hour, off the air in the East, is telecast to the later-rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: TV Newspaper | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Died. Hubert B. ("Dutch") Leonard,* 60, southpaw pitcher who fireballed his way to fame in the American League (1913-25), later made a fortune as a California grape-grower; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Fresno. In 1914, on the pitching staff of the Boston Red Sox (which also included Babe Ruth), he had his best season, winning 19 games and losing five, for an average of 1.01earned runs a game. After helping Boston to world championships in 1915 and 1916, he quit baseball in 1925, retired to his Fresno ranch, where he could sit in any room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 21, 1952 | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

Other success stories are hardly less impressive. A Maine trawler skipper bought his wife a pair to keep her company while he was at sea, has since retired on the chinchilla income. A Connecticut tobacco grower took up chinchillas as a sideline, gave up his 7 5-acre tobacco farm when he began to net $20,000 a year on his animals. Pro & Con. But the breeders are careful not to make a large-scale test of the market for skins. Not for another five years or so will the U.S. chinchilla population be big enough (estimated as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Regal Rodents | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...Hair grower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

When the hearing finished, however, a Mississippi cotton grower walked over to Mike Di Salle, shook his hand warmly and said: "I don't like your order, but I sure do admire your courage." Grinned Mike Di Salle: "The only thing that can happen to me is that I might have to go back to Toledo. And I like Toledo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: What Have I Got to Lose? | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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