Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he did not name a Presidential favorite, David Riesman '34, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, warned against the contemporary political complacency. "I feel along with many people that the current American assumption that there can be 'politics as usual' in the year of the atom bomb does not make too much sense. We are perhaps too sure that 1960 will come along without a contaminated atmosphere or even a worse explosion and that we can play guessing games without serious risk to life on this planet...
...Henry Lamar Akron, Ohio Dec. 29 " " Central Ohio (Columbus) Dec. 30 " " Dayton, Ohio Dec. 31 " " Rochester, N.Y. Dec. 26 Alex Bell Syracuse, N.Y. Dec. 28 " " Buffalo, N.Y. Dec. 29 " " Eastern New York (Albany) Dec. 30 " " San Diego, Cal. Dec. 17 Norman Shepard Chicago, Illinois Dec. 30 Prof. Franklin Ford Baltimore, Md. Dec. 29 Prof. Reuben Brower Kansas City, Kans. Dec. 23 (no speaker) Denver, Colo. Dec. 28 (no speaker) *dinner meeting rather than usual luncheon...
...confining commercials to seven minutes an hour. It pipes in some U.S. network shows (Hallmark Hall of Fame, Ed Sullivan Show, River boat) that blend suitably with its schedule, selling the advertising time to Canadian firms. CBS produces almost all the rest of its shows, and with two exceptions-Ford Startime (half of its programs are imported, half produced for Ford of Canada by CBC) and the CBC-produced General Motors Presents-a sponsor cannot even worm his name into a show's title. CBC bars commercials from not only the middle but also the beginning...
...brilliant intellectual (Mortimer Adler) appears just ahead of a retired madam (Polly Adler); the Dalai Lama flanks Dagmar. Henry Ford II shares a page with Tennessee Ernie Ford; Dr. Albert Schweitzer mingles on page 675 with Cleveland Indian Pitcher Herb Score. What brings these unlikely companions together is the new International Celebrity Register ($26), by Society Scribe Cleveland Amory (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts...
...Ford Startime (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). My Three Angels: Sam and Bella Spewack's TV adaptation of their own Broadway adaptation of Albert Husson's La Cuisine des Anges, a bizarre comedy about convicts in French Guiana...