Word: cisco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Founded in 1937 as a radio syndication outfit by Cincinnati Adman Frederic W. Ziv, the company went into TV eleven years ago with a good backlog of Hollywood feature films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs 3,500 people, uses ten Hollywood sound stages where it produces more syndicated shows (32) than any of its competitors. Ziv charges $35 to $3,500 a week...
...nine regulars on the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, first big-league team of all, only Shortstop George Wright went on to become a successful businessman (Wright & Ditson, sporting goods). The rest stayed only a pitch or two ahead of the bill collectors. One died in a San Fran cisco poorhouse; sentimental fans saved another from a pauper's grave. Growing prestige, says Professor Gregory, has opened a new world of post-retirement opportunities for the once-forgotten ballplayer. So many of them have turned to radio and television sportscasting* that the good professor concludes: "Old players never die, they...
...Hollywood, another movie lot surrendered to television when Ziv Television Programs, Inc. (Mr. District Attorney, I Led Three Lives, Boston Blackie, Cisco Kid) bought the six-acre American National Studios, formerly the home of Eagle Lion-Pathe...
Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran cisco Examiner, who likes nothing better than balancing on the knife edge of propriety, last week passed along to readers a choice item about Cinemactress Ava Gardner. One night, while gambling at Lake Tahoe, said Caen, Ava announced: " 'I want to roll the dice for $1,000.' She picked up the dice and began rubbing them up and down the front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted...
Winthrop House boxers also claimed three individual titles. Norm Wyner scored the most impressive victory of the evening by a TKO of Tony Murray of Leverett in the welterweight clash. In the 155-lb. match, Ray Daley won a decision from wild swinging Cisco Pisature of Kirkland, while Ed Carey won from Frank Ingoldsby of Dunster. The three victories gave Winthrop 15 points, three short of Dudley's winning total...