Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazines he also collected a fat list of prospects and some dope about them, not all of it straight. He noted that Gretchen Fraser, Olympic ski champion, had a 6-oz. gold trophy worth $210, that Movie Star Ann Sothern collected white Meissen figurines, that Joseph Toth, a Mansfield, Ohio gun collector had 35 fine machine pistols, that Schwab's Drugstore in Beverly Hills, Calif, stocked $200 gold lighters, that the E. L. Doheny home in Los Angeles had gold bathroom fixtures, and that "rich people live in Ten Hills, Baltimore...
...1920s, when a newspaper publisher attacked their bid for a city contract. The Horvitz brothers decided that the way to answer Publisher Raymond Cyrus Hoiles was to go into the newspaper business them selves, in competition with Hoiles's papers in Lorain (pop. 44,000) and Mansfield (pop. 37,000). By 1930 the contractors had won their fight. Publisher Hoiles,† who had made many enemies by his violent attacks on schools, churches and unions, sold out his Lorain and Mansfield papers, and they were later merged with the Horvitz dailies...
...Practices? The Horvitz monopoly was threatened when the Federal Communications Commission licensed radio stations in Mansfield and later in Elyria (ten miles from Lorain). From the start, Mansfield's WMAN and Elyria's WEOL were fought by the Horvitz papers-the Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 26,000) and the Lorain Journal (circ. 21,000). Merchants complained to the federal government that both papers refused to mention the radio stations, and canceled or turned down newspaper advertising contracts with businessmen who bought radio time. When the Horvitz brothers applied for licenses to start their own radio stations, they were...
CHARLES N. PRESNAIL Mansfield, Ohio...
...dispense this capsule advice, Producer Irving Mansfield (Talent Scouts') engaged Critic Clifton Fadiman as moderator, and Comic Abe Burrows and Playwright-Director George S. Kaufman (The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It With You) for permanent panel members. Right from the start it became embarrassingly clear that the problems of most entertainers could be solved more readily with a grain of aspirin than with a pound of prosy counsel. On the opening show, Bandleader Artie Shaw departed from his script to remark: "My problem is that I haven't any problem...