Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Post and PM ("Even if bits of our hide are tacked on the radio tower") gave the show a favorable review. So did the Herald Tribune's Columnist John Crosby ("It took courage . . . zeal and discretion"). Four Manhattan dailies gave it the silent treatment. (Snarled one editor: "The papers could do a better job on radio any week.") But the public liked it; more than 350 letters piled into CBS the first week. Encouraged, Hollenbeck promised soon to turn a "detached, noncommittal eye" on wire services and newsmagazines, as well as on the newspapers' columnists, comic...
...prove that they had harbored no such intentions, all 15 jockeys left the post hustling. Gordon Richards' jinx, which has kept him from winning England's greatest race in 22 attempts, was with him again. Tudor Minstrel showed briefly in front at Tattenham Corner, flattened out badly, finished fourth, out of the prize money. The winner: French-owned Pearl Diver, a 40-to-1 shot...
After nine years away from Africa he returned in 1934 as editor of the Africa Morning Post in Accra, Gold Coast. It was here he first squared off with the British. Three years later, charged with being a political agitator, he was tried for sedition but the case was quashed. He wrote two books: Liberia and World Politics and Renascent Africa. With his royalties he returned to Lagos, Nigeria and founded Zik's Press...
...clock a rash of worried whispering broke out among the officials. An announcement followed. At the last minute the gas workers, in charge of blowing up the bags, had gone on strike. The last four balloons were left at the post...
...foremost U.S. small-arms experts, holds that anyone can learn to shoot with his toy as efficiently as with an ordinary rifle. The Marine Corps and the British Government are considering them for possible use in training. One Marine Corps base has already ordered some to sell in its post exchange. In his small two-story, ivy-covered plant at Cranston, R.I., Johnson has already turned out 10,000 rifles for sale in toy and gun stores. Retail price: $15. With the target rifle he hopes that his company, which has been losing money since...