Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week this intramural argument was finally resolved; Nielsen bought Hooper's network reporting services for an estimated $600,000. Now top dog in the national radio field, Tabulator Nielsen expects to fulfill all Hooper's old network contracts with his own twice-monthly rating report. Said he jubilantly: "Radio was being short-changed by a system that measured only urban areas. But we'll soon bring order out of chaos...
Both horses ran easily as the field broke into the din at the start: Citation just off the pace, Noor far back in the ruck. The real battle started at the mile and a half. Citation moved into the lead with a rush and Noor, skirting the flying ribbon of color on the rail, came up from behind and closed for the final duel. Noor was first as they headed for home. Then Citation came up again; for second after aching second, they ran shoulder to shoulder, wild and even as a runaway team, while the stands and infield erupted...
...hunting dogs and their weather-beaten owners and trainers, the center of the universe is the sleepy village of Grand Junction (pop. 750), Tenn. The National Field Trial Championship, World Series of U.S. bird-dog competition, has been held there for 52 years at Ames Plantation - a 27,000-acre expanse of quail-rustled sedge and woodland with a great ante-bellum mansion, rows of hospital-clean kennels and stables floored in handmade bricks...
This year as he waited his turn in the ten-day meet, there seemed a good chance that Brownie might fail again. In the three-hour field trials, dogs are judged not only for the number of birds or coveys they find but on their speed, range and obedience, their thoroughness in hunting, their style and manners in pointing, and their steadiness under gunfire. Last year's national champion, a pointer bitch named Sierra Joan, performed beautifully; so did a Winston-Salem, N.C. dog named Fast Delivery...
...cartel-minded Britain, stolid, well-nosed Lord McGowan, 75-year-old chairman of the billion-dollar, globe-girdling Imperial Chemicals Industries, Ltd., has long been the staunchest champion of gentlemanly agreements which divide the world's markets. But this week. Lord McGowan reversed his field. Imperial Chemicals announced that it would invade the U.S. markets of its great & good friends, Wilmington's E. I. du Pont de Nemours...