Word: merlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full well knew he the dangers that were soon to beset him. One man to play at death with a myriad host of others. Ye wise and aged seer Merlin Lautner had clear envisaged for him the pitfalls that would of a surety bestrew his path. The field was full astir with the dread enemy, loud roaring for his pure blue blood. Summoning his last ounce of courage, and calling up for the final time the image of the virgin Lily Maid, he ran the gauntlet with a desperate rush...
...Merlin Hall Aylesworth was a young Colorado lawyer, just three years out of Denver University's law school and 25 years old, when he got his appointment as attorney of Larimer County in 1911. Then his interest began to swing from law, toward business. In 1918 he resigned his post to become vice president of Utah Power & Light...
About that time broadcasting put on long pants, became a full-fledged business. When Radio Corp. of America organized National Broadcasting Co. in 1926 to give radio its first coast-to-coast hookup, its directors picked Merlin Aylesworth as NBC's first president...
...management of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. No lover of the New Deal, he suited President Roy Howard's increasing distaste for the Roosevelt Administration. Last year Roy Howard upped Ray Allen Huber, publisher of the New York World-Telegram, made him general manager of Scripps-Howard newspapers and put Merlin Aylesworth in charge of the World-Telegram...
Last week, Lawyer-Utilitarian-Broadcaster-Cinemagnate-Publisher Aylesworth, like the magical Merlin himself, was gone again. He resigned his job on the World-Telegram, and, standing before Justice Francis Martin of the Supreme Court of New York, at 53 was admitted to the bar. His aim: to practice corporation law and specialize in litigation involving labor and taxation disputes...