Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Durocher knows umpires-and they know him. Beans Reardon deflates Leo by saying, "Stop putting on your act, little boy." The most awe-inspiring of umpires is large, red-faced George Magerkurth, who swells up with majestic rage when his dignity is pricked. Leo's arguments with him are Brooklyn legend. "The Mage," says Leo fondly, "is one of the best umpires in baseball." It is a slow season when The Lip gets less than five notices from National League headquarters. Sample: "For prolonged argument, delaying the game, use of violent, profane language, you are fined...
...time and money, and the caliber of the men, it was a disappointing report. But in its peroration, written by Philosopher Hocking, the Commission for once rose to the level of its argument. "The journalist," said he, "sometimes reflects that his art is one of improvisation, and that its products, being destined to pass with the interest of the moment, require no great care in their workmanship. Yet, just because it is the day's report of itself, it is the permanent word of that day to all other days. The press must be free because its freedom...
...growth of the infant television industry has been stunted by a prodigious argument over its care & feeding. Should television broadcasts be in black & white or in color? Last week, after 14 weeks of weighing the testimony, the Federal Communications Commission finally ruled in favor of black & white...
...next four or five years, perhaps longer, anyone who wanted to buy a television set would have to be content with a black & white receiver. The argument before FCC was highly technical. But the issues were dollars & cents. The real question was whether Radio Corp. of America-and NBC-or the Columbia Broadcasting System got a head start, and possible control, of the lusty young television baby...
Black & White Ahead. CBS argued that its "sequential" system* was commercially feasible. Its sets could be made for only 10 to 30% more than black & white ones (actually, CBS presented no plans to have them mass-produced). But the most potent argument of CBS's President Frank Stanton was that color was the only thing which could really get public interest. The public could take black & white or leave it alone. (Even now there are only about 10,000 black & white receivers in use.) But the public would go for television color as it had gone for color...