Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other House masters could not be reached for comment...
...show boosted Revlon sales 50% in one year, but things got worse in the advertising end. Norman claims that Revson refused to pay him the standard 15% fee (some $150,000 yearly) on talent used on the show. Revson's brother Martin, the only Revson who would comment last week, insists that the Norman agency was dropped because it began handling a rival show, The Big Surprise. Snapped Martin: "Norman is just a mere infant, that's all. He should shut up." Whatever the truth, Charlie Revson and Norman did not get along. "Revson has good ad sense...
When asked to comment on the controversy about Radcliffe membership in Harvard undergraduate organizations, Miss Brown said she would like more time to analyze the existing system before taking a stand. "I want to see the way it operates," she said, "and not make any comment until I have more facts...
...avoid a ruinous party blowup over civil rights. They had even contrived to put a Democratic stamp of sorts on civil rights legislation. Now Faubus had undone them-and Democratic politicians, in their acute embarrassment, could only pretend that Faubus did not exist. Lyndon Johnson became unavailable for comment. Grunted old Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any other man in history: "I'm not making any comment about segregation at all, my friend, one way or another. It's not my problem...
...cause of Hagerty's rebuke, carried without comment in the pro-Eisenhower Chronicle (circ. 190,045) last week, was a gobbet of gossip in a syndicated column that appears in the Chronicle each Sunday under the head "Confidential Memo," by John J. Miller. The item: "Vice President Nixon is talking behind President Eisenhower's back and saying things that would be considered in the worst taste if ever printed. Perhaps the mildest statement he made at one gathering recently was, 'Sometimes I think he's just a jerk'-meaning Ike, of course...