Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What sort of world was TIME born into? The following passages from stories that ran in Vol. i, No. i, March 3, 1923 give an idea...
...world of Nietzsche's superman-and of Richard Loeb, 18, son of another rich Chicagoan. "Their coming together," said Clarence Darrow, "was the means of their undoing. They had a weird, almost impossible relationship. Leopold, with his obsession of the superman, had repeatedly said that Loeb was his idea of the superman. He had the attitude toward him one had to his most devoted friend, or that a man has to a lover." Says Leopold of Loeb: "I thought so much of the guy that I was willing to do anything-even murder -if he wanted it bad enough...
Angels Anonymous. The idea for KPFA began in 1946 when the late Louis Hill, fed up with imitative commercial broadcasting, quit his job as White House and Senate correspondent for WINX in Washington. D.C. After settling down in San Francisco, he collected a group of friends, started raising money for a station that would be supported not by commercials but by listener subscription. By 1949 Hill had enough money to set up a studio near the Berkeley campus of the University of California, but after 15 months on the air he had so few subscribers that he had to close...
Today the station operates (at 94.1 me) on a $100,000 annual budget, raised from its 6,000 subscribers and from scores of angels-some of them anonymous-across the U.S. who may not be able to tune in but feel in tune with the idea. Lecturers and performers get no pay; musicians play for a minimum of $8 a show. The station has a deal with both BBC and CBC to rebroadcast whatever it likes, borrows all the records it can use from local music shops...
...neglected Eocene formation, down only 1,200 ft. Eocene oil can be pumped cheaper and faster than other oil ($30,000 and one week to drill a well, v. $200,000 and six weeks), is ideally suited for refining into heavy fuel oil. But oilmen laughed at the idea that there was enough oil in the Eocene formation to be commercially produced...