Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to the Kefauver hearings, when TIME was the only sponsor, eight advertisers (LIFE, Longines-Wittnauer, Motorola, United Fruit, American Oil Co., Collier's, Newsweek, United Air Lines) took over segments of the MacArthur processional on TV. They got their money's worth: the MacArthur show was TV's biggest & best job to date...
Last week Harry Truman disowned his Boswell. To White House correspondents, Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Short angrily denounced an article by Daniels in Collier's which would do Harry Truman no good with Congress. In it, Daniels attributed to the President some recommendations for reforming Congress. Most notable: limiting tenure to twelve years. Daniels pointed out that such a limitation would lop off such Democratic pillars as Speaker Sam Rayburn, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Texas' Senator Tom Connally and Virginia's Harry Byrd...
Varsity basketball captain Ed Smith was given honorable mention for Collier's magazine's District All American team. On the first quintet from District 1--New England--were Jim Dilling and Earl Markey of Holy Cross and John Silk of Boston College. Princeton captain Mike Kearns gained honorable mention on the Mid-Atlantic squad, which listed no players from Greater New York...
...Louis was off the presses and in the mail with a story naming L.I.U.'s pantherlike Sherman White, one of the bribetakers, as its "player of the year." Look hastily scratched White's name from its All-America team, chosen by the votes of 430 sportswriters. Collier's rubbed White's name from its own All-America squad in a story already in type...
Died. Joseph Palmer Knapp, 86, chief organizer, chief stockholder, and retired chief executive of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Collier's; the American Magazine; Woman's Home Companion) and of This Week (circulation of the four: 19,712,000), a pioneer in the evolution of color printing, son of Joseph Fairchild Knapp, founder of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; in Manhattan...