Word: newark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes watched with bright red face while Gridiron Club members portrayed him as Donald Duck, the frenzied squawker. Last week, "Honest Harold"* engaged General Hugh Johnson in debate in Newark, said: "We are both contesting for the post of Donald Duck of Public Affairs...
Radio got him first. In 1921 he went to WJZ, then merely a sort of cloister off a ladies' rest room of the Westinghouse factory in Newark. For $40 a week he sang, played the piano, operated the Ampico player-piano, announced, told bedtime stories, recited Uncle Wiggly, read the Sunday funnies. Since those days, many an NBC announcer has come & gone, but Milton Cross is still on the job, an NBC standby...
Baketball, for example, has Paul Busse, a six-footer who learned the game at Newark Academy, ready to step in and replace Giles Scofield, Princeton's captain and high scorer in 1939. In fact Busse, a good hall handler, a fine shot and a digger for forty minutes, already has won for himself the pivot sport, making him the only Sophomore on the starting five that has been used to date...
Tallest is Bill Hook, a 6 foot, 3 inch center from Lower Merion High. Then there is Henry Solaliac, star of last year's freshman quintet, a 6 foot, 2 inch athlete with plenty of experience. Sid Levinson, from Rochester, Walter Reinhard, formerly of Weequahic High, Newark; and John Townsend, of Friends Central, Philadelphia, also are being counted on to lift the Quaker court fortunes. There are, as well, Gene Davis, the sophomore foot-baller; Ray Frick, football captain-elect: Johnny Dutcher, who also played football; Eugene Weisberg and George Dietrick. Reserves from the 1939 team include Tony Caputo...
...expenditure on New York City is negligible. The addition of some 8,000 to its 7,500,000 inhabitants will not even make a ripple. But for airline travelers, North Beach has a substantial benefit: passengers will reach Grand Central in 20 minutes, instead of 55 minutes from the Newark Field through the Holland Tunnel...