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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murphy is "best all around player," according to Harper. He's a good shot, competent on defense, but his greatest attribute is plenty of basketball know-how. Murphy played with a state championship team in his high school days and later spent some time on a top grade service team...
From 8 p.m. on, a third network, ABC, entered the struggle for Sunday night listeners. With the freehanded giveaway show Stop the Music (19.2%) and Walter Winchell (who currently leads the field with the top Hooper of 29.7%), ABC has clearly distanced its older rivals. Hardest hit in the percentage battle is bag-eyed Fred Allen, who dropped below CBS's Adventures of Sam Spade, as well as ABC's Stop the Music...
...years bald, bespectacled Dean Weigle has headed the top-rank, nondenominational theological seminary atop New Haven's Prospect Street hill. Under his "liberal evangelical" administration the school's enrollment grew from about 150 Bachelor of Divinity students to the present 250. More than 100 of his former pupils are leaders of other schools and religious organizations...
...Waldorf to greet their guests and show their wares, on which they had spent a round $150 million for retooling. All of G.M.'s cars showed a drastic change either inside or out. They were so low and rakish that a small man could look over the top. They had wider seats (average front seat width: 62 inches), little change in wheelbases (but in some models shorter overall length), and were up an average of 3.5% in price...
...seat width and wheel-bases, while lowering the roofs, cutting overall width and bumper-to-bumper length. Compared with most postwar cars, body lines were conservative. There were two brand-new models: Plymouth's Suburban, a metal station wagon that sleeps two, and a Dodge roadster with manual top and old-fashioned detachable plastic side curtains. With no frills or extras, it would be the cheapest Dodge. Chrysler had simplified its automatic fluid drive transmission, dubbed it Gyromatic, and made it regular equipment on DeSoto and Chrysler, optional on Dodge...