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...Chicago's Cubs again lean heavily on the strong pitching arm of Claude Passeau and the big bat of home-run specialist Bill ("Swish") Nicholson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pennant Prospects | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Circumstantial. In Detroit, Mrs. Elizabeth Nicholson, mother of five, filed suit for divorce when she found a traffic ticket in her husband's pocket. The charge: one-arm driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 19, 1945 | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...lank, hard-bargaining hotelman named Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, longed to own something really big. Inevitably, his gaze fell upon the world's biggest hotel: Chicago's 2,700-room Stevens. Last week, for $7,500,000, Innkeeper Hilton proudly added the Chicago colossus to his string of 13 hotels (including Manhattan's Plaza and Roosevelt, and Los Angeles' swank Town House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Biggest | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Obstetrician. The notion that expectant mothers should quit work and take to their beds was attacked by Dr. Nicholson J. Eastman of Johns Hopkins. Deploring the common industrial practice of discharging pregnant women, he cited wartime findings that light factory work does them no harm, that they can safely work until six weeks before delivery. Dr. Eastman added that women do not need as much rest between babies as commonly supposed; a study of 38,000 mothers showed that the optimum interval is one to two years (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Bed | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...Nicholson cleaned up the paper and the plant, raised salaries, restored staff and public confidence. By last week circulation was up one-third, to 80,000. Advertising was up nearly one-third in quantity, one-fourth in rates. Owner Nicholson at last had something worth-while to offer Newsman Fritchey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Friends and A Promise | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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