Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibitor (National Theatres, Inc.) proved that TV advertising can be a more effective box-office draw than newspaper ads. A spot check of 20.000 Denver and Kansas City- moviegoers indicated that 35.1% were drawn by newspapers to see Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 38.5% were drawn by Disneyland...
...Light. In Denver, after breaking into and ransacking the Colorado Duntile Products Co., breaking locks off tool boxes and the dial off a safe, a burglar finally gave up, penned a thoughtful note: "This night has convinced me that tomorrow I am starting to go straight. Your friend, the burglar...
...thing. She had any number of sensible shoes, even some with those awful flaps on front." She did TV commercials ("I was terrible-honestly, anyone watching me give the pitch for Old Golds would have switched to Camels"), doggedly made the rounds of summer stock (New Hope and Denver) and casting offices. "I've read for almost everything that's been cast. I even read for the ingenue part in The Country Girl on Broadway (left out in the movie). The producer told me I really wasn't the ingenue type, that I was too intelligent looking...
...foreign dispatches; few parts of newspapers are read with more scrupulous devotion by woman readers. Once, metropolitan society newshens concentrated on the doings of the very few-a group rigidly defined by such social dictators as New York's Ward McAllister. Chicago's Mrs. Potter Palmer, Denver's "Unsinkable" Mrs. Margaret Tobin Brown,* San Francisco's Ned Greenway. But changes in American life and the hard realities of newspaper circulation-building have transformed the face of U.S. society news. Running a society page, explains Detroit News Women's Department Director Gordon Dixon, is "something like...
...made a big difference in the social acceptability of reporters. Many a society leader, engaged in charitable work, has learned the value of publicity. No longer do reporters have to stand outside the door, like little match girls, trying to find out what is going on inside. Said Denver Post Society Editor Patricia Collins: "We are well accepted everywhere." In Washington there are so many parties, says Washington Post and Times-Herald Society Editor Marie McNair. "that I live all winter on canapes and don't get a green vegetable a month...