Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illinois. There was little doubt that arch-isolationist Senator "Curly" Brooks would easily defeat the Democrats' leftish Paul Douglas, who ignored the party regulars, doggedly waged a futile one-man campaign from his station-wagon jeep. But the Republicans' handsome playboy, Governor Dwight Green, was facing real opposition from political amateur Adlai Stevenson (TIME, March 8).Backed by the nominally independent (but actually pro-Republican) Chicago Daily News, with the full support of other papers as far away as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Candidate Stevenson was hitting hard at graft, shakedowns and kickbacks in the state administration...
...rudely invaded by the press or radio, journalism is simply bad taste in print or wired for sound. Can they do anything about it? Not much, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week. The court upheld dismissal of the suit of two sisters who had sued a Tuscaloosa radio station for digging up a story about their father's disappearance in 1905. "The right of privacy is supported by logic and the weight of authority," said the court, but in the face of "legitimate public interest" it has to give...
...pictures were up to those on home receivers, except for "snow" in the Washington station and for brief blankouts on stretches of track beyond the range of transmitters. Reporters appeared less interested in the experiment than in the televised World Series game. A.P.'s Arthur Edson noted that, technically, reception "was surprisingly good," but complained that he had missed most of an inning because FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock was posing for news pictures in front of the screen. The New York Star's Ernest Barcella was chiefly concerned about what had happened to Warren Spahn: "He was pitching...
Passengers on a Capital Airlines flagship bound from Washington to Chicago also watched the series on an airborne TV set. Whenever the airliner got beyond station range, it simply climbed 1,000 feet and picked up the signal again. When the plane was equidistant from two stations in different cities, but on the same channel, the result was not a double image. The stronger station...
Pickup. In Washington, Larimer's Market was boosting its business by literally picking customers up on the streets. It sends out a station wagon to cruise in the store neighborhood every day, bring back pedestrians who hail it at its regular stops...