Word: cott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting of their own-the first in radio history. "Tudie" Judis, one of radio's most remarkable personalities, was not there ("I hate conventions"). But she had planned the strategy and was pulling the wires. As her delegate she sent her program director, shrewd, 32-year-old Ted Cott. As chairman of the independents' committee, Cott promised that the unaffiliated stations would all "speak with one voice" in the shaping of industry policies. The whole industry, worried by TV's threat, by intramural talent raids, and by sharpening competition for the advertising dollar, would listen closely...
...MAKING OF AN INSURGENT (222 pp.)-Fiorello H. La Guardia-Lippin-cott...
...March of Science. In London, Dr. Hugh B. Cott of the Cambridge Museum of Zoology reported that his three-man panel of experts, after sampling the eggs of 81 species of birds, had come to an authoritative conclusion: big eggs usually taste better than little ones...
...more trouble to save the Last Supper, which was left exposed to rain, wind and sun. When the last of the sandbags was removed in the summer of 1945, an Allied Commission reported that the painting was in good condition. Says associate director of the Worcester (Mass.) Museum Perry Cott (who, as a member of the commission, ordered the sandbags removed): "The Last Supper may be getting worse and it surely isn't getting any better. It is a miracle that it was saved...
Odell Shepard, Connecticut scholar, politico and Pulitzer Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Al-cott), has collaborated with his son Willard Shepard on this outsized (250,000 words) chunk of historical fiction, in which almost everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast...