Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within 24 hours Hammarskjold had his answer-via radio broadcast. "The Hammarskjold visit," said Radio Budapest flatly, "will not take place on Dec. 16.'' The Kadar government did not trouble to send the Secretary-General a formal reply...
...behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS). After a futile 24-hour vigil near the telephone, Mike Kadar gave up and journeyed home to write a pleading letter to Janos. The harsh odds, however, were that Mike had already got his answer ten years ago. At that time Janos Kadar, then a rising star in Hungary's Little Bear constellation, had written to Mike, asking him to send no more parcels or letters. And, perhaps dimly perceiving the days of terror to come. Communist Kadar had also advised Farmer Kadar...
...Will Flop." Both chambers of commerce and corporations try conscientiously to answer the letters they get. Up to a point, they welcome and even encourage the letter-writing habit on the theory that today's pupils will be tomorrow's customers and tourists. But the whole thing is getting out of hand. Says William H. P. Smith of the Boston chamber: "We're just swamped with this mail from kids. Most of the information they ask for they could find in any World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director...
...answer to the movie threat would also meet the threat from CBS, which last week captured all top ten Neilsen ratings for November and all but one of the top ten rated by Trendex. The answer: more and better live shows...
...Talent Guy." Though he is the key man charged with producing the answer, Manie (pronounced Manny) Sacks has never created any entertainment in his life, once told an interviewer: "I am strictly a no-talent guy myself." But he probably can commandeer more live talent than anybody in broadcasting. Born and educated in Philadelphia, Manie, who looks like a rough draft of Frank Sinatra, learned show business as an actors' agent (show biz lingo: "flesh peddler") for the Music Corp. of America, then took over bookings for Columbia Records. In that job, he successfully persuaded Dinah Shore, Sinatra, Benny...