Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor of these leagues," Jeremiah Ford of Pennsylvania said. Though also concerned with the expense, Yale's Athletic Director Dolaney Kiphuth said he would follow Fairman's lead. That was the stand of Cornell's Robert J. Kane and Dartmouth's Robert Rolfe, who currently heads the Directors' Committee...
According to the Nielsen ratings, the nation's No. 1 TV drama show is Ford Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Filmed in Hollywood by Screen Gems, Inc. (a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures and producer of such TV shows as Father Knows Best, Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and Captain Midnight), Ford Theater is in its third year on TV and attributes its success to 1) the use of Hollywood stars (Thomas Mitchell, Irene Dunne, William Lundigan, Ronald Reagan), 2) its technically perfect films, 3) its plots, which Screen Gems says defensively are of "more interest to audiences throughout...
...rivals claim that Ford's large audience is largely inherited from Dragnet, which precedes Ford's 30-minute show. After leading the field since last April, Ford Theater last week was still in front, but only by a hair's breadth: Ford scored 34.7 in the Nielsen ratings, closely followed by NBC's Kraft TV Theater (which comes on after My Little Margie) with...
...commercial time normally allowed them under the code of the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters (a maximum of seven minutes in a one-hour evening show). On NBC's Producers' Showcase, in addition to an excellent, if somewhat dated, production of State of the Union, Sponsor Ford devised a pair of inventive commercials. The first, featuring an actor and a model, managed a provocative, if somewhat cloying, combination of Lincoln and sex; the second used the rhythmic movements of 18 actors (as many as were employed in the cast of State of the Union) to create...
...toured the ribboning express roads around Boston could conclude that New England is dying on the vine. Whole new industrial centers are springing up, with such companies as Raytheon, Polaroid and Sylvania building long, low modern factories to take up the slack in textile employment. And in Dearborn, Mich., Ford was celebrating one of the best sales years in its history by building a new, twelve-story administration building...