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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summary: Rickenbacker (H) defeated Johnson (B), 3 and 2. J. Gibney (B) defeated O'Keeffe (H), 1 up, nineteenth hole. Gresz (B) defeated Mee (H), 5 and 3. Daggett (B) defeated Denton (H), 3 and 2. D. Gibney (B) defeated Putnam (H), 1 up. Ross (B) defeated Matson (H), 3 and 1. Nawn (H) defeated Conners...
Five days a week, amiable Roland J. Brand, 57, is out of bed by 4:15 a.m. He walks his Doberman pinscher for half an hour, gulps his breakfast (nothing but cold black coffee), picks up a couple of sandwiches that his wife has made for his lunch, and catches the 5:10 streetcar from his home in West Allis, a Milwaukee suburb. From 6:20 a.m. until 3 p.m. Brand works at a job which many people would call tough, unpleasant and underpaid...
...another. The slower VariType system (TIME, Feb. 16, 1948) had forced the papers to advance deadlines two hours, inevitably taking the edge off the news. Papers were turning more & more to roundups and canned features to make up for the news they skipped. The Trib's Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney thought it was not all loss. Said he: "We have told the background of the news better under strike conditions than [before]." And Daily News Managing Editor Everett Norlander detected another gain: "We've learned how to keep our copy short." Stories had to be chopped...
...share, had been selling at around $200 a share until last week. Then Broker James M. Johnston, representing an undisclosed customer, suddenly offered $280 a share. For $2.9 million he reportedly snared 80% of National's stock. A few days later, the directors eased President J. Frank White up into the board chairmanship and elected a new president, Barnum L. Colton, who was brought over from the National Savings and Trust Co. There he had been a vice president and had handled the United Mine Workers' deposits, chiefly the welfare fund of some $25 million. Presumablythe fund might...
...Manhattan last week, bushy-browed Edward J. Noble, who made a mint out of Life Savers, turned a businessman's hard and appraising eye on network television's prospects. Noble is chairman of American Broadcasting Co. and he was speaking to his company's stockholders. The way he saw it, TV was no way for a broadcaster to get rich quick and his stockholders should get that straight.* He was facing them at the first annual meeting since his privately owned ABC had sold 500,000 shares of stock to the public last year, partly...