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...Frank Masterson, 28, an ambitious Chicagoan who entered his father's contracting firm few years ago, soon tired of that job, wanted a business of his own. In December a Marshall Field & Co. advertisement of traveling bags piqued his curiosity; he found that plenty of people came to look, few to buy. Luggage, he decided, was too expensive to sell readily. He wondered why no one had thought of renting it. Visiting railroad and airline offices, steamship and travel bureaus, he planted an idea: if vacationists could skimp on luggage, perhaps they would splurge on trips. In partnership with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Skimp & Splurge Service | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...fans a special rate of $23.20 for the round-trip to Chicago. The Bears were 10-to-7 favorites. They had lost only one game (out of eleven) all season, the Redskins had lost three. Chicagoans predicted heavyweight Wrestling Champion Bronko Nagurski would rip the Redskin line and Bernie Masterson would take care of Baugh. They were wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Redskins Up | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...summary: RHODE ISLAND HARVARD Messina, Partington, McCarthy, Kogut, r.f l.f., White, Shirk Keaney, Tashjian, Masterson, l.f. r.f., Lavietes, Lowman, McGowan, Litman Martin, c. c., Gray, Herrick Burke, Fabricant, r.g. l.g., Damper, Snell, Mason, Wills Wright, Wightman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Hoopmen Downed by Rhode Island Quintet 44-28 | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains and towns. Merchant Otero put his sons in boarding school, but they ran away; he put them in St. Louis University, but they quickly got back to the hunting grounds that made them happy. Still a youngster, Miguel met Wild Bill, Bat Masterson, Mysterious Dave Mathers, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Clay Allison and dozens of the dance hall girls, known only by first names such as Liz,. Dolly, Steamboat, Trix, whom he was to recall pleasantly 60 years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Wild West Boyhood | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...high place kick that missed hitting the goalpost by just enough to give Michigan the game which clinched the Big Ten Championship 3-to-0. Nebraska took the championship of the Big Six-Kansas. Oklahoma, Kansas State, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa State- by nosing out Oklahoma, 5-to-0, on Masterson's field goal in the third quarter and a safety in the fourth, when Right End Cherry ran back to pick up a pass from center that had gone over his head. Auburn (Alabama Polytechnic Institute) has an extraordinary football team, called "Tigers" or "Plainsmen." Its coach is Chet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 28, 1932 | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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