Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cartoon commercials that charm the viewer into yielding to Madison Avenue's "soft sell." The best of them, such as the Harry and Bert beer ads, come from Hollywood's UPA Pictures, Inc., whose booming output has not only rescued it from the theater slump but spawned branch studios in Manhattan and London. Last week, acting on the obvious conclusion, CBS began showing UPA's cartoon artistry strictly for its own entertaining sake. Aglow with ingenuity as radiant as its Technicolor, the Boing-Boing Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m., E.S.T.) became the first weekly all-cartoon revue...
...college, travel abroad, or continue working at home. Only requirement is that they attend a two-month round-table "Institute on the Arts" in Chicago. "What the artist or scholar produces in the year is unimportant," says Director William E. Hartmann, managing partner of the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architectural branch in Chicago. "What is important-and this is our goal-is the hope that we can help each recipient further his or her individual artistic development...
Such were Allen's tributes to vaudeville. But he loved it, despite its leeching managers and overnight hops, shoebox lunches and tank-town audiences. To him, it was a school of inventive self-reliance peopled with lovable oddballs. A gaudy branch of human botany, vaudeville finds in Fred Allen an affectionate and scrupulous botanist who cherishes every last contortionist, hypnotist, iron-jawed lady, human xylophone, one-armed cornetist, rube comedian, Hindu conjurer and clay modeler who ever played a split week east of Lompo,. Calif. or west of Maiden, Mass...
Robby was ambitious, yet a little awed after he came off the athletic fields of U.C.L.A. (four letters), and prepped in Kansas City and Montreal before putting on a Brooklyn uniform to become at 28 big-league baseball's first Negro player. To prepare him, his mentor Branch Rickey called him into his office one day, cursed him, swung at him, then spat at him a particularly vile name. "What do you do now, Jackie?" Rickey asked. Robinson replied: "Mr. Rickey, I guess I turn the other cheek." For the next couple of years he played superlative baseball while...
...MEAT PACKERS are pushing for permission to branch into retail meat, grocery business. Swift, Armour and Cudahy have petitioned Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. to revoke consent decree of 1920 prohibiting them from owning retail meat markets and restricting their dealing in 140 products, e.g., fruits, vegetables, fresh milk...