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...least hidebound of the networks. Until last April, he was an on-&-off Mutual attraction. Fifteen minutes after he jabbered his jabberwacky over WOR for local sponsors, he repeated the show for the network. Theoretically, Mutual offered Here's Morgan to local sponsors, but there was only one taker-a beer distributor in Hawaii. So two months ago Morgan refused to continue the repeat broadcasts, contented himself with his sponsored WOR show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Morgan v. Mutual | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...contemplation of these impressive crypts has been known to cause many young couples to linger till dusk and later. This cemetery is a community institution which deserves commendation, for it renders far more than twenty-four hour service. With the coming of Spring the care-taker will place a sign on the gate each evening phrased in the words of the Dunster House committeeman, "the grass...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 5/15/1942 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, 77, world's leading woman astronomer, called the "Census Taker of the Sky" because during her lifelong researches at Harvard observatory she methodically counted up, according to their spectra, almost 400,000 stellar bodies; in Cambridge, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...course everything points to the Yale game, and it should be breath-taker this year. The Bulldogs have a record much like that of the Crimson, and for comparison they tied Williams 1 to 1 and beat Springfield 1 to 0. So the outcome in today's game with Springfield will be an important criterion, and the westerners always go in for soccer in a big way. Anyway, as the old saying goes, "anything can happen in the Yale game...

Author: By George F. Waters, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

Last week L-O-F President John David Biggers (famed unemployment census taker, now on the Defense Advisory Commission) met the threatened invasion head on. L-O-F bought out Toledo's 70% control of Plaskon for some $2,500,000, became the first glass company to enter the plastics field. When plastics automobile windows are built, L-O-F may well build them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Glass Meets Plastic | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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