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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital room. I gave Pollard, whose leg was in traction, a carefully prepared script, but he dropped it on the floor at a crucial point of the broadcast . . . Woolf had just asked The Cougar how he should ride Seabiscuit in the match. 'Why, Georgie boy,' Pollard ad-libbed, 'just ride your usual race. Get left at the post and louse it up from there on in.' Woolf and Seabiscuit won despite Pollard's advice...
...years as president of the National Broadcasting Co., eupeptic Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver made the newspapers almost as often as NBC's program timetables. He pushed the so-called "magazine concept" of selling TV ad time to several sponsors per show, popularized the hour-and-a-half "spectacular" program, thought up NBC's Wide, Wide World and long-winded Monitor. But all this was not entirely to the liking of David Sarnoff, 64, board chairman of NBC's parent company, Radio Corp. of America. Madison Avenue gossiped that Pat Weaver was getting too much personal publicity...
...plaintiffs in the case are Negro workers who have brought action to enjoin the defendant corporation from discriminating at its housing development, and to prohibit the defendant Federal agencies, the FBA ad VA, from guaranteeing purchase mortgages in the project as long as the discrimination continues...
...clear: by their own definition, the only vacant space is to their left. Not only the Crimson, but even the New Conservative Club, and that last bastion of radicalism, the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, are united in "the energetic bugling from the left." While the HYRC asked (December 1) for "ad hoc agreements" between political clubs, this is exactly what the Forum's constitution provides. Their opposition to the Forum has been conspicuous so far only for its malleability. Perhaps the group's members are interested in the aims of the new Forum. But its present spokesman, like Cicero...
...answer to chain-store com petition. Says San Francisco Grocer Wayne Bingham: "They're like a snowball, once you get the thing rolling. Let one customer get his first premium, and the whole community is going to hear about it. For us, that's better than any ad over television." But the stamp plan's biggest foe, giant Safeway, calls it nothing but "a shell game to distract the consumer from the fact that she is paying higher prices." Because Safeway met stamp competition by slashing prices, the U.S. Justice Department slapped an antitrust suit against...