Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt that RCA was taking a licking. In Detroit, Grinnell Bros. Music House (with 30 branches) estimated that Columbia's LP records were outselling RCA's 30 to 1. Chicago's leading record dealer, Hudson-Ross, said that the RCA 45 "just hasn't caught on." In other cities, dealers reported that LP records were the only ones for which there was a big demand. Many retailers had trimmed prices of standard (78 r.p.m.) records as much as 50% in order to keep stocks moving. Moaned a Los Angeles dealer: "The manufacturers have...
...Steel, which sponsors the NBC Summer Symphony series, had decided it would also sponsor an original work, and had asked Gillis, 37, and vivacious NBC Scripter Claris Ross, 26, to write one. In a month, they had cooked up a 15-minute fantasy for children about a baby-sitting grandfather whose charge doubts his ability to sing her to sleep: "Humph! I'm the fellow who invented lullabies. In fact, I invented music...
Loony Loot. In Ocala, Fla., burglars broke into Ross Allen's menagerie and took 23 alligators...
...rescued from social ostracism by the beautiful Baptist mission worker, Miss Lacey, whose well-modulated voice converted Maggie from a self-pitying brat to a self-sacrificing angel. As the program ended, the listeners began hurling comment and criticism at the head of Chicago Theological Seminary's Professor Ross Snyder, moderator of the session and co-chairman of Chicago's Religious Radio Workshop...
Within a few years, "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" was fabulously famous. Lydia's iron smile had been plastered on barns and billboards across the U.S., and her name was in history with Betsy Ross, Jane Addams and Susan B. Anthony. Her story, told in Jean Burton's spry biography, makes the career of a Horatio Alger hero sound like a chronicle of indifferent success...