Word: pioneers
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...eager to rent, more than a hundred companies have gone into television rentals. But because sets turn no profit until they have been rented for at least a year, large capital is required and 90% of the business is handled by six big firms. Largest of all is the pioneer in the field, Radio Rentals Ltd. Founded 32 years ago by Chairman Percy Perring-Thoms as a one-shop operation renting radios for 35? a week, Radio Rentals expanded into television just before World War II. Today the company has 750,000 subscribers and 310 sales offices, manufactures...
Died. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 82, pioneer Arctic explorer whose painstaking, dogsled investigations of Eskimo life earned him a scholar's reputation as an author (My Life with the Eskimos), anthropologist, and all-round authority on polar life; of a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. Manitoba-born Stefansson spent ten winters and 13 summers from 1904 to 1919 living like an Eskimo while exploring uncharted polar ice fields. In 1911 the wiry explorer made his most important find: a tribe of blonde-haired Eskimos living on Victoria Island, presumably descendants of the Vikings. A writer, lecturer, and curator...
...Pioneer.- Thanks to its lubricious reputation. Cancer had wide sales-partly because of publicity-making struggles with local censors (notably in Los Angeles and Maryland). Capricorn may ring up the money too. especially since Grove Press this time will give no financial support to bookstores prosecuted for violating obscenity codes. In the long run, though, the only question likely to be raised about both books is "What is all the fuss about?" As a pornographer, Miller has been surpassed. As a critic of America, he is a gadfly with delusions of grandeur, an ineffectual rebel who can never make...
Harvard's new Center for Behavioral Sciences will be named after William James, an American pioneer in the scientific study of man, the University announced last week...
Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: Seven Husbands, a new play by Furniture Manufacturer turned Playwright Lewis S. Salsburg...