Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After urging NBC to correct its faults, the committee, listed a dozen recommendations, including such pallid injunctions as correct grammar, how-to-do-it shows, hobby material, folk music and "adventure programs other than westerns and space serials-for example, exploration." NBC handed the report to its program producers, solicited their comment before checking what, if any, "constructive steps . . . can be taken...
This week the Modern announced that six canvases in the show will permanently-grace, its cool halls. Cézanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat (donated by David Rockefeller) helps the Modern correct what it considers the "weakness" of its late 19th century collection. Cézanne's canvases are currently thought to be a sort of touchstone of modern art-he is the idolized grandfather whose very presence lends authority to the struggles of his successors-and the Boy is an excellent example "of his pioneering portraiture...
...article might be to many of us native St. Louisans as well as to millions of others who are deeply grateful to the Busch family for what they have done for America, St. Louis and the beer industry, I am not so sure that you are entirely correct in saying "When Prohibition was finally repealed . . . Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks ..."... As I recall it, the first case of beer went...
...Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley ("charming") and Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, 52, 6th Marquess of Donegal and governor of Carrick-fergus Castle ("suave"). "I didn't know what to call them-my lord, or what," said Vicki. "They told me the correct way was to say Lord So-and-So, but in a few minutes we were calling each other by first names." That same day an application came from thrice-married Lord Stanley of Alderley, 47, a baron who knows the U.S. well. He endeared himself to Vicki by inviting...
...predicted-log powerboat race up the length of Long Island Sound (see chart) had spent long hours computing his course; he had counted down to the last second just how long it would take him to pass each control point along the way. He had, if his calculations were correct, accounted for the effect of wind and tide; he had gone over his figures for the umpteenth time. Then he had filed his predictions with the race authorities...