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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHRB may have to fold up if an anticipated Federal Communications Commission ruling on college stations is passed, the Radio Network revealed this weekend.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FCC Probe of College Stations May Force Radio Network to Close Down | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

You betray a pitiful lack of experience when you tag as sugary and overripe prose [Novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s], "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

It is merely descriptive prose of what happens out here in the West. I suggest that you arrange to arrive at Quaking Aspen Meadow in the Sierras when it comes on toward night, and the sun is down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes are beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Sixteen years later I turned up in Tokyo, an itinerant free-lance writer, broke and badly in need of a job. By chance I met a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Stylist. In Rio de Janeiro, Decio de Souza Santos, who made a habit of sending a letter of apology to each of his burglary victims, was arrested when he showed up at the stationer's to buy a fresh supply of his favorite note paper.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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