Word: firsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wise Founder Higginson had taken other steps to insure stability. In 1903, he set up a musicians' pension plan, the first in any U.S. orchestra. That is one reason why Boston Symphony musicians stay around and learn how to play together. Eleven men have been in the orchestra 30 years or more, another 40 men more .than 20 years...
...hope for is a 20-week season, the Boston musicians, most of whom also play in the Boston "Pops" and at Tanglewood in the summer, get 49 paychecks a year from the symphony for 47 weeks of work. The size of the checks helps keep them happy too: first desk men make not less than $10,000, not including broadcasting and recording fees; no one gets less than $4,860 in salary, which is well above the A.F.M. scale...
Texas to the Congo. It was as simple as the first: to publish a speller that would include pronunciation, meaning and usage, with exercises to match. The new speller and workbook swept the nation. Over the years, every schoolchild in Texas and Alabama, and half of those in ten other states were learning their spelling and vocabulary simultaneously. The Webster books found their way into such big cities as New York, to the Philippines and Alaska, and via missionaries to China, India, and the Belgian Congo...
...later." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, owner of KSD-TV, editorialized: "Dramatic murder ... is older than Sophocles. But ... the most popular dramas have never displayed, as their principal reason for being, bashed heads and riddled bodies. As employed by television, these are the devices of third-rate drama and first-rate irresponsibility...
...cautiously hopes to escape the twin furies which pursued him in radio-Hooperatings ("the rating system is a $50,000 tail wagging a $50 million dog") and vice presidents ("the only morons in radio are in the offices"). He suspects that he and Jane talk too much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself to let a few minutes go by without saying anything, but a silence always makes me uneasy." As for radio, Ace says: "I don't think we'll ever go back to it-unless some silly sponsor wants...