Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the leadership of Kenneth R. Frankel '45, business manager of the station, the small staff plans to send out the usual jazz and classical concerts as well as rebroadcasts of dramatic programs and celebrity interview shows of last term. They have not, as yet, decided whether they are going to have a news summary program...
...Mindanao, the unmanageable Moros ignore Manila, as usual. Without forceful persuasion, perhaps 80% of the population could never be made to dream of anything but siesta, fiesta and sunsets...
Beer & Blue Laws. On May 29, when it looked as if the club would set a new record for games lost, youthful Owner Bob Carpenter Jr. (whose father, a Du Pont vice president, had bought him the club) made a crucial decision. The usual fire-the-manager cries were being heard and doing team morale no good. Carpenter suddenly announced that he was not only keeping Ben Chapman but had signed him for 1947 too. From then on, Chapman was able to get what he needed from his boys. Ex-Cincinnati slugger Frank McCormick (who cost $40,000) began knocking...
...sugar-beet people, wary of potential competition, have always been hard-headed about Philippine independence and even this short-run freeing of the market is viewed with suspicion from Madison to Butte. The Bell Bill was obviously a compromise, with political altruism knuckling under to politics-as-usual while the wobbly Philippine infant got the economic pins knocked out from under...
...Explosive Teens. A certain violence in the matter of defining Uncle Alfred became usual among the young during the years just before and during World War I. Uncle Alfred's Edwardian coziness aroused derision, his comfortable income insulted equity, his genteel tradition excited rage. In June 1914 a little magazine called BLAST appeared (long ahead of ¥2) in London, saying: "BLAST years 1837 to 1900; curse abysmal inexcusable middle class . . . BLAST their weeping whiskers. . . ." This tone continued for 30-odd years to reverberate at one extreme of the little magazine gamut. But the violence was also disciplined...