Word: wiggins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Legs. The Voice was almost totally tone-deaf until two years ago; officials doubted the propaganda value of music. But it had at least a couple of staffers who were jazz buffs. Program Manager Eugene King and his deputy, John Wiggin, eventually made the point that, like it or not, jazz is a valuable exportable U.S. commodity. To sweeten its sometimes pungent flavor, the Voice decided to introduce the jazz with an hour of good pop music. To find an announcer the Voice held auditions, selected Buffalo-born Disk Jockey Conover, 35. His qualifications: a pleasantly resonant voice, the ability...
...Ditisheim moved into American Woolen Co., whose stock had a market price of $22-$25 and a book value of around $69. With 98,000 shares (10% of the stock outstanding), Ditisheim and the same group of backers again tried to reorganize, but failed when Executive Committee Chairman Albert Wiggin, who backed their bid, died in mid-deal. Selling their stock at an average $40 a share, the Ditisheim group still counted a $2,000,000 profit...
...statement to the Daily News, Dean Wiggin said yesterday that no change was impending. On Thursday, a high was impending. On Thursday, a high University official told the CRIMSON that "there is a definite possibility of a vote, on a matter of each marked faculty interest...
...Haven and settled down cheerfully as a CRIMSON staff writer. The results were far too numerous to mention. Among them a proposal (greatly applauded at the time) to trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield, and a shattering expose of Kate Douglas Wiggin for plagiarism. William I. Nichols '26 (Editor--This Week Magazine...
However, Norris W. Darrell '51, A. Chase Shafer '51, and William E. Wiggin '50 met constant difficulty with finances and material, and after frequent post-ponoments abandoned the project...