Word: lunding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most TV stations are off the air by 1 a.m., but Pittsburgh's WDTV is one U.S. station that telecasts 24 hours a day. The experiment began last month, after Station Manager Harold Lund discovered that nearly 200,000 swing-shift workers in the steel mills and other Pittsburgh industries seldom got a chance to see TV except on weekends...
Several outstanding competitor will be missing this winter: Jim Weaver, who captained last year's squad, Skiddy Lund, jumping and cross country expert, and Ed Ritvo, who led in downhill and slalom. Houser hopes, though, that new men, White Black, George Wilson, and John Glessner, may plug some of the game...
...river so many times in Boston that people are beginning to call it "Showboat." At least this is the charge leveled by a large group of city Republicans against prominent members of the Party who consistently support Democratic candidates. Despairing men like Henry Shattuck, Murray Forbes, Jr., and William Lund, saying that it was suicide to support Republicans candidates, have for years advised giving support to worthy Democrats...
...endorsed seven Democrats and two Republicans. Fine as this choice may sound, it pulled the rug out from under the other three Republicans running. Boston GOP voters (who have never numbered less than 75,000 regardless of how many have registered as such) were misled by the Shattuck-Forbes, Lund endorsement of the NBC into believing that their party was supporting Democrats. This split the GOP vote and three of the five Republican candidates lost out in the primary...
...cases where GOP support of Democratic candidates is the only way to eliminate arch-crooks from city government, the Shattuck-Forbes-Lund advice is correct. But in a year when Republicans might have won several seats on the Council it amounts to a sellout, one which will render the GOP impotent and futureless...