Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School of Music in Rochester. He composed everything from a symphony to pieces for a string quartet before deciding that a composer-at least of his caliber-"could not make a living in the U.S." He took a $50-a-week job with Columbia just a few months after CBS bought it. Later, as Director of Masterworks, Lieberson almost single-handed built up Columbia's skimpy catalogue of classical works to compete with first-place RCA Victor. He was made executive vice president in 1949, president in 1956, now earns a salary of $70,000 a year, plus benefits...
...Other members: J. P. Morgan & Co. Chairman Henry C. Alexander; National Cash Register Chairman Stanley C. Allyn; Bechtel Corp. President S. D. Bechtel; Standard Oil of Calif. Chairman R. G. Follis; Standard Oil (N.J.) Chairman Eugene Holman; General Electric Finance Committee Chairman Philip D. Reed; CBS President Frank Stanton; International Packers Ltd. Chairman A. Thomas Taylor...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Tom Ewell and June Lockhart in an amiable trifle about a salesman who finds that love and education can go together...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). First of two installments, in successive weeks, of one of the most ambitious dramatic shows in TV history: Hemingway's Spanish-war epic, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Maria Schell as Maria, Jason Robards Jr. as Robert Jordan, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as Rafael...
Thurs., March 5 Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The unhappiness this week centers around a couple of G.I.s (Dean Stockwell and Dick York) who get all shook up in Japan...