Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio gets more awards than students at a high-school graduation. Most of them are insignificant; none stack up with journalism's Pulitzer Prizes. But the Peabody Awards *announced this week by a jury of educators and journalists headed by Atlantic Monthly Editor Edward Weeks, are a cut above the crowd. The Peabody picks...
...prove that he could "compose" 50 songs in one twelve-hour day. He turned up in the studio of San Antonio's Station WOAI at 8 a.m., in a white Stetson, a green-and-yellow embroidered shirt, and hand-tooled boots. He brought with him a stack of pulp magazines, for inspiration. To make it look harder, he had a policeman chain him to a piano...
...Government and make some money. He turned down a $75,000-a-year Hays office job, went to work as an engineering consultant. When the President telephoned him last week he unhesitatingly answered "Yes," set up shop in Washington's Mayflower Hotel and immediately tackled a huge stack of Government reports...
...final runoff was offered to the fans, and grandstand opinion in the Northeast Corner contended that the Crimson would have benefited by it because of its superior baton handling. As it was, their time did not stack up to the 3:26 of NYU, and the four just had to content themselves with the show money...
Besides the old and inherently restricted Disabled American Veterans, the Legion's biggest competitor was another oldtimer - the Veterans of Foreign Wars, headed by Joseph M. Stack. V.F.W. had got the jump on everybody by recruiting over seas, now had 1,250,000 members (one million of them brand new) and two mil lion dollars in the bank. But it still wanted only men with foreign service, and it took no women. Its biggest attraction was an extravagant bonus plan to be pushed in Congress: $3 for each veteran's day of home service; $4 for each overseas...