Word: clubbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least some businessmen began to realize that sponsors had their share of the responsibility for the scandal. In a speech to the Sales Executives Club in Manhattan, Philip Cortney, president of Coty, Inc., took a roundhouse swing at his archrival, Revlon (sponsors of The $64,000 Question, co-sponsors of The $64,000 Challenge). Businessmen who profited from rigged shows, said Cortney, should be called to account by congressional committees. Their "illgotten gains" should be donated to charity as "conscience money." Businessmen, Cortney concluded, ought to keep their hands off entertainment...
...before the war. Prices have doubled in the past two years. These startling statistics were underlined last week by the breakneck rush of business at the fourth annual Art and Antiques Fair at Munich's Haus der Kunst, which 'was for many years a U.S. officers' club. 0f Gothic figures and paintings, one in four was imported from the U.S. It was a far cry from the days just after World War II, when starving German families were trading heirlooms for food, and antique treasures drained out of Germany. Last year, for the first time since...
...make much of Homer's epithets (Hera is "white-armed"; Odysseus generally "crafty"). Graves uses them sparingly, and sometimes ironically. The gods are treated with something less than respect; Zeus is a blowhard who hardly ever means what he says, and Hera, his wife, might be a garden-club president. When Zeus, who favors the Trojans, remarks that Hera protects the Greeks as if they were her own bastards, she replies pertly: "Revered Son of Cronus, what a thing to say!" Cartoonist Ronald Searle's illustrations wittily support Graves's wry treatment of the Olympians. Whether...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A musical salute to the armed forces, starring Singers Johnny Desmond, John Raitt, Jaye P. Morgan, Ballerina Allegra Kent and the Coast Guard Glee Club. Color...
...British Ryder Cup Golf (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The final holes of the final day of play at the Eldorado Country Club, Palm Desert, Calif...