Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunster will play Dudley to start the day's games. in the evening Winthrop and Kirkland will battle at 8 p.m. and Eliot and Adams at 9 p.m. On Friday, Lowell will face Leverett at 2 P.m. On Monday, Adams will meet Dunster at 2 p.m., Leverett plays Kirkland at 7 p.m., and Eliot takes on Winthrop at 8 p.m. Next Tuesday, Dudley will play Lowell...
...comedians (e.g., Danny Thomas, Jack Paar, Henry Morgan, Danny Kaye) who have tried to buck radio's Old Guard, Shriner feels that he has a few advantages: he can pre-test his radio gags from the stage of Inside U.S.A., and his program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest 2.5, has doubled in the last two weeks...
...output of his 14 "rim men." They are all experts at trimming and polishing copy, as well as heading it up. They are not hampered by the shibboleths of most copy desks (Newsmen may end heads with prepositions). The News copydeskers are well-paid men by copydesk standards: they start at $110 a week and go up to $140, plus bonuses for prize heads...
...young a rider, Clarence ("Ping") Picou is a remarkable judge of pace. But one of his biggest assets is getting a horse away to a fast start. It is a trick he learned down in Texas. At twelve, Ping Picou began riding Quarter horse races on Sunday, where he learned not to get left at the post. He rode about 200 races in two years, before a cattleman, Felix De Mary, gave him a chance to become a real jockey...
...committee, which met over the weekend in the Shepard Room of Phillips Brooks House, is now ready to start subscribing stores to the Purchase Card plan...