Word: jr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This unexpected news threw the whole television industry into a nervous dither. Even Zenith Radio Corp., builders of the TV color receivers used in Philadelphia, disparaged its own work. Zenith's supercharged President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. shrugged off the Philadelphia experiment because it was transmitted over a telephone line. "It is not broadcast television," he argued, "and it does not indicate that color television for the public is imminent." CBS, which pioneered in color television, had nothing...
...Flora, Ill. Sentinel (circ. 2,500) is a proud slogan: "A free press, a free nation." Like many another country editor, stocky, aggressive Charles Allen Crowder writes almost all the stories in his twice-weekly Sentinel himself; his wife Dorothy and their 15-year-old son Charles Jr. (whose column is called "Crowder's Chowder") do the rest. In reporting the news of Flora (pop. 6,000) and Republican Clay County, Republican Editor Crowder says he sometimes "plays up what the business interests want played down...
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (237 pp.)-Frank B. Gllbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey-Crowell...
Smaller Margin. Publisher James H. McGraw Jr. (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.) also drew a bead on the Administration. He accused Harry Truman of causing the current power shortage in the Northwest by short-circuiting power projects. The result is that the area "may be set back for a long time to come...
Perhaps because the co-authors collaborated by mail (Frank Jr. lives in Charleston, S.C., sister Ernestine in Manhasset, N.Y.), their product lacks unity and presents the reader with only the haziest notion about the chronology of the Gilbreth tribe's doings. Though father Gilbreth often sounds (and sounds off) like father Day, Cheaper by the Dozen lacks the literary merits of its wise, well-honed predecessor. Mother Gilbreth's firm character is made clear (she still lives in Montclair, runs her husband's business and was 1948's "Woman of the Year"). But the personalities...