Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critics at home & abroad have called U.S. television everything from pernicious (T. S. Eliot) to abysmal (Robert Hutchins). But last week U.S. TVmen could feel a little chirkier. Back in Britain after a short stay in Manhattan, TV Critic Leonard Mosley of the London Daily Express sat down and wrote them a soothing love letter...
...Janas organized subsidiaries such as Canadian Air Express and Airlines Limousine Ltd., never reported his stock ownership in them...
...called it a "pig pen;" only four years ago the Cleveland Press vainly campaigned to get it replaced, offered suitable prizes to anyone who could remember the day it opened in 1866. Sample awards: "lithograph of President Lincoln, free ride in next stagecoach passing through Cleveland . . . views of pony express for your stereoscope...
...Pony Express. Many passengers on longer runs match the commuter complaints. Among their gripes: old equipment (an average 31 years for Pennsy coaches v. the national average of 26), old stations, dirty cars, tasteless food, poor safety and on-time performance, and the churlishness of employees...
...cutting regime was just what the big brass at Loew's, Inc. (MGM's parent company) wanted, that Mayer was becoming a stranger in his own house. Last week the Hollywood Reporter's Bill Feeder tried an old newsman's stunt. He telephoned Mayer to express his concern over the expected departure and Mayer admitted that he was thinking of a change...