Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defeated only by M.I.T., the University Rifle Club on Saturday meets New Hampshire in the basement of Memorial Hall and will shoot a "postal" match against Pittsburgh...
...next six weeks before the curtain rises on a finished production will be taken up with whipping the show into shape and drilling the cast and chorus in their roles. So far no name has been chosen for the successor of "Hades! The Ladies!" But Theodore Viehman of Pittsburgh has been put in charge of the rehearsals and William Holbrook of New York will coach the chorus, which turns out a week from today for its first practice in intricate dance steps and formations...
...Foley 1L, of Somerville, Mass.; George Gore 1L, of Rapid City, S. D.; Howard L. Hausman 1L, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Samuel L. Kobre 1L, of Newark, N. J.; Milton P. Kroll 1L, of Paterson, N. J.; Bertram H. Loewenberg 1L, of Roxbury, Mass.; Donald L. McCaskey 1L, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Frank J. Meistrell 1L, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; William L. Owen 1L, of Excelsior Springs, Mo.; Alexander G. Sanderson, Jr. 1L, of Texarkana, Ark.; Sidney D. Spear 1L, of Cashmere, Wash.; Solon J. Stone 1L, of Buffalo, N. Y.; William W. Wirtz 1L, of DeKalb, Ill.; Adrian W. DeWind...
Into that scene last autumn buzzed a gadfly named Transradio Press Service, an upstart newsgathering organization in the business of serving independent radio stations which preferred not to be bound by the truce (TIME, Oct. 29). In Pittsburgh Transradio found such a station in WJAS, which is locally owned but hooked into the Columbia network. WJAS found a potent sponsor in Kaufmann's department store, biggest, most progressive retail business in Pittsburgh. On New Year's Day, WJAS inaugurated two daily 15-min. news broadcasts, supplied by Transradio and paid for, $1,000 a week, by Kaufmann...
...Pittsburgh publishers were furious. They stormed that Kaufmann's had no more business giving away news than the newspapers would have giving away shirts as circulation gifts. Yet they were in no position to declare war on Kaufmann's since the store was a bountiful advertiser and had made no move to reduce its newspaper budget because of radio expense. Instead the publishers fired protests at the Press-Radio committee which restrained them from broadcasting news themselves. Hearst's Sun-Telegraph was reported to have filed formal notice with the other publishers that, beginning...