Word: merlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Merlin Powis Smith (Old Testament Editor) professor of Semitic Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago; Professor Alexander Reid Gordon of the University of St. Andrews: Professor Theophile J. Meek of the University of Toronto; Professor Leroy Waterman of the University of Michigan; Professor Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (New Testament) of Chicago. Printed at University of Chicago Press ($3.50). * John A. Dickson Publishing Co., Chicago: $7.75 to $18.75, depending upon format...
...bruised ginger root gave off an aroma that corroborated the statement of the Latin ponies. And there was another difficulty, the directions said to boil the concoction for a half hour stirring the while. The Vagabond had conjured up lovely visions of leaning over a gurgling caldron, much as Merlin might have done. But as the minutes passed failure dwelt hard upon their tracks. No while arose...
...poetry, never criticizes other people's, "wouldn't read in public for a million dollars." He loves to read detective stories, does not know whether he is a great poet or not but says he has never consciously injured anyone. Other books: The Man Against the Sky, Merlin, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, The Glory of the Nightingales (TIME, Sept...
When the radio committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association proposed at the last convention that newspapers publish radio programs as paid advertising only, Radio replied through Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting Co.: "The public will get its information, if not through the newspapers, then through a new medium created for the purpose" (TIME, May 4). Fortnight later the Cincinnati newspapers began to skeletonize their radio programs to such terms as "Dialog" for Amos 'n Andy; "Commentator" for Lowell Thomas; "Dance Orchestra" for Paul Whiteman. Result: within a week appeared Radio Dial, an eight-page weekly...
Before the Commission appeared President Merlin Hall Aylesworth to plead for the life of his National Broadcasting Co.'s seven stations (WRC, Washington; WEAF and WJZ, New York; KGO, San Francisco; KOA, Denver; WTAM, Cleveland; WENR, Chicago). His company had, he said, $17,000,000 in unfulfilled broadcasting contracts on hand. It had earned its first "small profit" last year on $20,000,000 gross business. It had leased 27 new studios in Manhattan's Radio City. A revocation of its licenses would ruin its business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case...