Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a rumble of kettledrums and a flourish of flags, TV moved into the fall season. Curiously, the week's best drama was a 2,400-year-old Greek tragedy. Jean Anouilh's version of Sophocles' Antigone was given a striking, modern-day adaptation by Worthington Miner...
¶ Democrats will attempt a fairly sustained radio-TV pitch throughout this month and next. Republicans will start slowly, intensifying their campaign coverage in the three final pre-election weeks. This week the Democrats will experiment with saturation broadcasting: they will put Adlai Stevenson's Harrisburg, Pa. oration over...
Things were quiet at Koinonia Farm last week. Not many tourists stopped at the newly reopened roadside stand on U.S. 19 because all the signs advertising it had been stolen. The people of Americus, Ga. (pop. 12,000) would like to get rid of Koinonia Farm; it is an embarrassment...
One San Francisco newsboy, eying a pile of free copies of the Times in a hotel lobby, protested Ioudly; "What a lousy trick!" San Francisco newspaper executives were more discreet, but they began some hard thinking about the future. They stressed probable obstacles to electronic distribution of a national newspaper...
* Printed in Amsterdam and Lima from matrices flown from New York, this edition usually carries advertising, but ads were suspended during the San Francisco experiment.