Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Theodore Evjue, the firebrand, muckraking owner and editor of the successful (circ. 40,181) Capital Times of Madison, Wis., likes tough, independent reporters who are not afraid to talk back to him. Reporter Cedric Parker, 42, had measured up to the boss's standard almost too well. In his 21 years on Evjue's staff, Parker had earned a reputation as a crack reporter by such stunts as storming into tough gambling joints one jump ahead of raiding policemen. Reckless, hard-drinking Reporter Parker had also earned a left-wing reputation as a local C.I.O. official...
...financial publishing family of Dow, Jones & Co., the big breadwinner is the ably edited, highly readable Wall Street Journal (circ. 140,724). Not so prosperous or well known is its little brother, Barren's weekly (circ. 36,672). Specializing primarily in financial services and statistics, Barren's of late years has edged cautiously into the field of economic and political analysis and commentary. Recently Dow, Jones President Bernard Kilgore and Wall Street Journal Editor W. H. Grimes decided to give Barren's readers a view of a still wider horizon. Their model: the London Economist, England...
...harried commission has made no decision. It will probably make none for many months, and any decision it does make is sure to rouse cries of anguish. If it gives color-telecast permission to CBS, the only outfit with a color system that works well at present, it will offend the manufacturers of black & white sets and their dealers, who are prospering on the status quo, and who fear that any promise of color will make the public stop buying. It will offend many TV station owners, most of whom, now living on hope and money transfusions, dread the greater...
Another fact is that RCA's system still does not work well. It has rarely been shown to the public, and does not impress laymen. Different sets show the same scene in different colors. The colors are not at all faithful; they often change suddenly and erratically. Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom, research chief of RCA, admits that the system is still in the laboratory stage. But RCA-men add that the CBS color system has reached its limit: it has no "room for growth...
...pictures will be good, but probably not so good as those supplied by some radical system not yet invented. The public, which ultimately controls FCC, can eat its color-cake now, thus commit itself to eating it from now on. Or it can wait for a better, as well as a less expensive, cake that may be ready five or ten years from...