Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hear It Now ... is the result of a two-year collaboration between Narrator Edward R. Murrow, Writer Fred Friendly and Producer John G. Gude. From 500 hours of broadcasting they selected some 60 minutes of outstanding events. Humorist James Thurber listened to the records and, over a weekend, wrote a 10,000-word critique, recommending a new and faster opening and more condensation. The collaborators went to work again and finished up with the present tightly knit ten-side album...
Died. Lewis R. ("Hack") Wilson, 48, colorful, brawling onetime National League home-run king (in 1930 he hit 56, four short of Ruth's record); in Baltimore. An ex-coal miner, Wilson joined the New York Giants in 1923, hit his peak from 1926 to 1931 with the Chicago Cubs, finally drank his way out of the big leagues, ended up broke...
Almost every handyman-around-the-house knows "Plumb" hammers and hatchets. Philadelphia's venerable Fayette R. Plumb, Inc. has been making fine tools since the 1880's, and is proud-and jealous-of its trademark. Not so well known is Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co. (named after Alphonse Plomb, one of three founders), a much younger firm (founded in 1907). When Plomb applied in 1926 to make its name a trademark, Plumb promptly squawked in court. The result was a deal in which Plomb agreed not to use its name on anything that resembled the famed Plumb...
When Jean Abel Gros (pronounced grow) first saw the famed pre-Christmas parade of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. 13 years ago, he got an idea. A showman with a small boy's taste for shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades...
Henry Foster (H) defeated H. Quain, 3-0; Clark (H) defeated H. Quain, 3-0; Clark (H) defeated Kendall, 3-0; Hugh Foster (H) defeated Measures, 3-0; McKittrick (H) defeated R. Quain 3-0; Ames (H) defeated Crepault, 3-0; Nawn (H) defeated Haller, 3-1; Fischelis (H) defeated Pearse...