Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contributor of most of the tittle-tattle and digression on the British show is voluble Panelist Harding, whom the BBC once banned for seven weeks from Twenty Questions after he audibly mumbled into the mike that the show was "a silly business." Later he was officially scolded for snapping at a whisky broker on What's My Line?: "I'm tired of looking at your face." Unlike U.S. audiences, Britons win no prizes on their quiz shows. The successful challenger who manages to stump the panel is rewarded with a parchment scroll, suitable for framing and hanging...
Pure Food & Drug Act. Collier's, then a leading muckraking magazine, hired Sullivan as a regular contributor and sent him to Washington, where he became such a crony of Teddy Roosevelt's that the President used to let him use his Virginia retreat during the summer. Soon Sullivan was editor of Collier...
...after the cold war began, is now an outspoken antiCommunist. Last week, in Italy on assignment from Collier's, Steinbeck heard a haunting voice from his past. In an open letter published in the Communist L'Unità (circ. 800,000), Italy's largest daily, a contributor named Ezio Taddei asked what Steinbeck thought of 1) the wickedness of American soldiers, 2) germ warfare in Korea, and 3) General Ridgway. Cried Taddei: "Let your voice be heard, John Steinbeck, and it will be welcome as it was in the past...
...Entry. Last week, just as the court was to hand the paper over to the Times-Star, a new figure entered the scene. Cleveland Financier & Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, a big contributor to the Democrats in Ohio and an old enemy of Senator Bob Taft's, announced that his Portsmouth Steel Corp. would back the employees. Eaton sent the trustees a check for $1,250,000 as a deposit, was ready to sign a contract to pay the remainder. If the paper is sold to Portsmouth Steel, it will immediately sell it to the employees, collect when the bond & stock...
...Floyd B. Odium, president of Atlas Corp., chairman of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. (6-365) and for years a regular Democratic campaign contributor, came out for Ike. Among his reasons for shifting sides: "He can best give us inspiring leadership during a period when we will be needing badly both inspiration and leadership...