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...Mont, one of the oldest of the four TV networks, concentrates its heaviest fire on the youngest televiewers. Each weekday evening it tries to blanket the bubble-gum trade with Small Fry Club (6 p.m., E.S.T.), for three-to seven-year-olds; with Magic Cottage (6:30 p.m.), for the eight-to-twelve set; and with enormously successful Captain Video (7 p.m.), aimed at teenagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 7 M.P.S; Zero 3 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Press and bindery workers--some of them members of the International Typographical Union--are generally paid according to prevailing rates, so the blanket five percent raise will be specially adjusted in their case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gives Five Percent Pay Raise to Workers | 12/16/1950 | See Source »

...springboard for visual comedy in the silent-movie tradition. Unfortunately, the effort too often is no more inventive than the second-rate dialogue that overburdens Comedian Durante. The picture brightens considerably whenever the sight gags pay off, e.g., Durante cooking the breakfast eggs, toast and coffee on an electric blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...from appearing on radio or television programs should be amended to read that they may do so with special permission of the Dean's Office. Such a qualification had been approved by the Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Activities, the Council explained, but the Corporation has insisted that the present blanket ruling remained unchanged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Considers 6 Rules Changes | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...turned over again and tried to squeeze under what was apparently a blanket. There was something wrong with that last idea. Celebrate the imminence of the Princeton game. Of course; celebrate was the square peg. Deplore, bemoan, he thought, bewail but do not celebrate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/11/1950 | See Source »

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