Word: cott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boost for her show by phone. The voices were tape-recorded, but many a housewife was presumably thrilled to hear the stars talk; some may even have tuned in as suggested. The stunt was the kind that has become a trademarked specialty of a radio go-getter named Ted Cott...
...Harder Mess. Moonfaced Promoter Cott, 35, general manager of NBC's outlets in Manhattan (radio, WNBC; television, WNBT), believes in plastering and bombarding potential radio listeners with elaborate little gags and gimmicks. Says he: "If you take a big bomb and drop it, you cause a lot of damage, but it can be cleaned up right away. I like to drop a lot of little bombs. The mess is harder to clean...
SHORT NOVELS OF COLETTE (733 pp.]-Wifh an Introduction by Glenway Wes-cott-Dial...
...details (station's frequency, place of business, etc.) as are required by federal law. This week, Manhattan's station WNBC decided to spice up the formalities with "wakeup copy" in the morning and "go-to-bed copy" at night. To do the job, enterprising General Manager Ted Cott commissioned such seasoned phrasemakers as Poet Louis Untermeyer, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Editor Norman (Saturday Review of Literature) Cousins and topflight Radio...
...Page One banner in the New York Daily News screamed: HUNT RED GOON IN UAW BOMBING. Inside, in a four-column, copyrighted exclusive, Reporter Jack Tur-cott put the finger on a mysterious assassin who was the "nation's No. i suspect" in the attempted dynamiting of Walter Reuther's union headquarters in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 2). Police in 48 states, wrote Turcott, were hunting one Paul F. Kassay, described by the News as a "Moscow-trained saboteur" and a "Communist fanatic . . . and avowed party hatchet man" who has been "at large" since another sabotage attempt...