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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart little newspaperman named Julius David Stern, who was almost unknown outside of Camden, N. J., crossed the Delaware River to Philadelphia and with some of the money he had made from his Camden Post and Courier bought the doddering Philadelphia Record from John Wanamaker. At that time the third largest U. S. city had five listless, uncompetitive and politically hogtied papers. No good newspaperman considered Philadelphia worth a stop between Baltimore and Manhattan...
...University of California's varsity oarsmen: the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, No. 1 U. S. crew race; rowing the four miles in 18 min., 12.6 sec., a new course record; on the choppy Hudson River, off Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Second-place Washington, finishing 1.5 sec. behind, also broke the old record...
Competing with Amos 'n' Andy on the radio is like taking on Joe Louis. CBS tried it for eleven years, finally coaxed the pair over to its own corner of the air, last April. Since then that 15-minute early evening spot has been NBC's headache...
This week NBC hoped it had hit upon the right medicine-Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, a 70-man band of glittering trumpetry, up-to-date stomp and freestyle, everybody-sing chorusing. Main reason that Fred Waring is considered a likely antidote to Amos 'n' Andy is that his orchestra has always played to the whole crowd, has never gone too hot or too sweet for catholic tastes. Says Fred: "If anything looks good...
Princetonians know Jack Crocker, now 39, as a big, dark-haired, broad-browed man who looks like Napoleon in his youth, likes his exercise (squash and tennis), loves to argue, has a laugh like a small thunderclap, six children and a comely wife (née Mary Hallowell, sister of two famed Harvard athletes) who sometimes needs to remind him where he parked his car. An earnest student, a disciple of Humanist Paul Elmer More, Crocker is a practitioner of "muscular Christianity." In this he resembles old Dr. Peabody, who used to play games with his students...