Word: templeton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half years ago, Station WBMS was organized by the Templeton Radio Manufacturing Company to bring good music throughout the day to what was considered an exceptionally music-conscious radio audience. Since that time, the story of Boston's Music Station has been one of a pioneer yielding to economic pressure...
Unfortunately, WBMS steadily lost money. The Endowment Series (which was "endowed" in name only) alone cost Templeton $117,000--money that will never be recovered. Faced with this big loss, Templeton sold WBMS in July, 1948, to a Steubenville, Ohio, company that operates a group of Eastern radio stations...
...orchestra and three soloists through a jangling, abrasive concerto for harp, harpsichord, piano and strings by Swiss Composer Frank Martin. Last week, he pulled out another new work: the Symphony No. 5 of Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu. Another surprise: a seldom-heard work by 91-year-old U.S. Expatriate Templeton Strong, who left for Switzerland some 50 years ago in a rage because he couldn't get his music performed at home...
Shortly, M-G-M will put out Lionel Barrymore's reading of A Christmas Carol, hopes to sell up to 500,000 albums at $3.75; RCA Victor will add eight more albums to its present 43. Among them: Alec Templeton's Pied Piper of Hamelin...
...tough at 63, Duke Sam thinks that hard work and perseverance are often a hindrance to success; hard workers may be too busy to meet the right people. He feels that if he had not been captain of the Yale '07 football team, he would not have met Templeton Crocker (Yale '08), who introduced him to his grandfather, California Banker William H. Crocker. Young Sam was hired to liquidate Crocker's corporate catchall which owned, among other things, the Monterey Peninsula. While liquidating it, young Morse formed a San Francisco syndicate which bought the peninsula for more...