Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening frame. The Crimson came back with two in the second, and went way out in front with three more in the fourth. Bill Shealy on the mound for the winners, went to the showers after that outburst, and Harvard was thoroughly shackled by Jee Sawyer, his successor, who get credit for the victory...
Another arrival in radio about this time was "the educational tie-up" by which networks displayed their utility and virtue. Colleges listened as NBC's "Great Plays Series," successor to the Radio Guild, started off in 1938 and in 1938-39 went on a grand tour of the ages, opening with Blanche Yurka in The Trojan Women. Other items that year: Molière, Tolstoi and George Bernard Shaw's own adaptation of Back to Methuselah. In the last three years this sort of thing has been overshadowed by commercial radio theaters, the fresh work of the Columbia...
Last week the War Department announced that the Stars & Stripes will have a World War II successor. Its name: Yank. "Publisher" will be ex-Stars & Stripesman Egbert White (vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn). Like its famed model, Yank will be edited by soldiers who prefer putting together a paper to wearing Sam Browne belts. Ad-less, like its predecessor, it will probably sell...
...Sidney Hillman had wanted to be the head man. Logical person to mobilize the country's labor force was the Labor Secretary: Madam Perkins was obviously unsuited. President Roosevelt could have replaced her-but labor leaders, after hours of haggling over who should be her successor, failed to agree; neither A.F. of L. nor C.I.O. chiefs would take a man from the other side. Indications were that no agency would...
...Jenny's transport successor has one clinching, convincing argument in her own right: she can be turned out in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost of an aluminum plane, not to mention a total saving of aluminum...