Word: format
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Borge's format is simple. Looking like a drunken Viking, he announces his numbers, then plays the piano; for two and a half hours, the audience doesn't stop laughing. Nothing could be duller than trying to analyze his humor-he has perfect timing, taste, and talent, and that is enough...
...Manhattan. CBS radio will carry Music 'til Dawn from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Five other CBS stations (in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.) will operate their own Music 'til Dawn for American Airlines, but on an independent basis. Format: light recorded music, news, local weather reports...
Drumbeats and Song has come a long way from the production that first carried that name in 1950. Physically the format has been changed so that the Harvard Band now precedes the Radcliffe section of the show instead of sandwiching it. This I would say, is an improvement, for in the past the final band numbers had been greeted by a restless audience...
...dropped last year to barely $2,700,000. Furthermore, it fell below (by 221,000) its guarantee to advertisers of 2,000,000 circulation, and recently it has been losing readers at the rate of 9,000 a month. To try to check the loss, Cosmo reshuffled its format, ran pictures on its cover instead of drawings, went after more sensational stories and articles, and had a series of staff changes...
...paper had shook itself somewhat out of the rut decried by the 1909 president. Action pictures replaced illustrations and the typographical format was livened...