Word: formations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile sponsor Revlon is busy grooming a third entry for the quiz sweepstakes. This one, to be called The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, may appear on Thursday nights in place of The Johnny Carson Show, and seems aimed at bringing the format of Atlantic City's Miss America contest to TV with the added bait of a $250,000 cash award...
...parodies, the "Dial" parody of 1925, the problem of pornography arose again, but this time on the format, which contained two embracing nude figures and was entitled "Neo-Platonic Love." The Cambridge Police Inspector banned the magazine from newsstands, and the Boston Postmaster banned this issue from the mails, but national authorities later vindicated the magazine. Meanwhile, the issue had already sold...
...merger would retain the basic format of the existing catalogue, but would incorporate certain descriptive titles to replace the numbers now used. "The Registrar's staff collected the names by secret poll," as an informant in the registrar's office said...
...nonexpert (including 90,000 subscribers who are not directly engaged in business) and for faster reading, the Journal uses a unique six-column format, plays the news in a way opposite to most dailies: spot news stories usually run on inside pages, while Page One is given over to national and world news sum maries, interpretive and feature stories, all occupying the same places from day to day, e.g., daily Page One leaders range chattily (as they did last week) from Europe's motel boom to building trends in hospitals and supermarkets. Barney Kilgore has reluctantly expanded the Journal...
...decided he could turn out a national-local television magazine, bought (for an estimated $2,750,000) New York's TV Guide, Philadelphia's TV Digest, Chicago's TV Forecast, and combined them. For his nationwide TV Guide, Annenberg adopted a digest-size format (just the right size for keeping on top of a TV set) and set out to do a job the newspapers overlooked: cover the news of television and give detailed, accurate program listings. Within a year he had spread out to 16 editions...