Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walking an endless circle in windy, below-freezing temperatures, the pickets heard with disappointment the decision of the local Red Cross to hold the final report luncheon of their current drive at the Club. The decision was made in spite of numerous protests over the past few days by Red Cross members and representatives of Cambridge civic unity groups. The protesters argued that use of the discriminating Club would constitute endorsement of racial intolerance...
Radiomen developed a mild case of jitters. A couple of showmakers with a mystery on Mutual hurried down to "talk things over" with Mrs. Hanowell. The National Association of Broadcasters had all sorts of little parleys with her. Columbia nervously dusted off a six-month-old report on crime shows and juvenile delinquency prepared by a friendly psychologist. ABC's Program Director Robert Saudek got off a hasty proclamation: ". . . Radio listening ... is a spectator sport whose influence on a child's personality is probably even smaller than the proportion of time he spends...
...first Baron Rothschild of Tring. He was charmed by fleas while still a student at Cambridge, and pursued them the rest of his life. Says Dr. Hubbard: "The Tring Museum ... at Tring, Hertfordshire, has become the flea center of the world." Flea lovers from all over report their discoveries and send offerings (fleas) to Tring...
Inflation sent the advertising rate to $12,000 an inch ($1 U.S.). To make ends meet young Powell started a translation service for U.S. businessmen and correspondents, and a newsletter called Monthly Report. He also began updating Who's Who in China, which, just before the war, had earned his father some new enemies with a section on Who's Who among the Puppets...
...presentation of Oscars - Hollywood's annual pat on the back to itself-has to be seen to be believed. TIME Correspondent Dwight Whitney, who saw it last week, fought his way through acres of diamonds, mink and glossy black limousines to report...