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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beck with billboard displays, radio programs and full-page newspaper advertisements. They described Beck's newly founded local at Boeing as the "foul-hatched, illegitimate offspring of a power-crazed dictator . . ." They also had the impertinence to use heavy-handed humor in bearding the heavy-handed czar. One ad featured a drawing of an old-fashioned privy which was entitled the "Beckhouse." Another pleaded: "Don't go Beckward...
Coolidge & Miss Oklahoma. Born a Scottish Presbyterian minister's son in Murcheson, Ont. 51 years ago, Brokenshire got on radio by answering a want ad for a man with a good voice and a "knowledge of musical terms." He had to be coached on the music terms, but the rich syrup of his voice was a natural. He covered the funeral of William Jennings Bryan ("My hardest job-I hate funerals"), the 1924 Democratic Convention, and the inauguration of Calvin Coolidge. In 1927, he was the first to broadcast an Atlantic City beauty contest ("I fell in love with...
Supper Menu. To prepare for his boss job, urbane, unpretentious Field touched most of the bases from driver's helper on a delivery truck to classified-ad salesman, police reporter and editorial writer. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and a wartime Navy officer in the South Pacific, he is a bit to the right of his newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that...
Naming names, there are Ransome of Beverly, Miscuraca of Gloucester, Murphy of Newton, and others ad infinitum. There is a fellow named Driscoll, who plays end for Dedham. This latter gent has been knocked out cold in practically every game he plays. They tape him up, and he goes in to mess up the opponents' backfield again. He might look good against Columbia. He might look good against Army, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, and all the other delorous names on the Harvard football schedule...
Flipping through the blurbs and blarney of Its trade press one day last week, Hollywood stopped to goggle at a full-page ad. Blazoned as an open letter "to the top executives of the motion picture industry," the ad said...