Word: fostered
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This week, 14 George Foster Peabody Awards (radio's annual "Oscars") were handed out. The chief winners: ABC's Comic Henry Morgan, CBS's Columbia Workshop, NBC's Orchestras of the Nation and CBS's Invitation to Music, Mutual's Meet the Press, ABC's broadcast of John Hersey's Hiroshima, the New York Herald Tribune's radio columnist, John Crosby. Awards for "outstanding reporting and interpretation of the news" went to Commentator William L. Shirer and the Columbia Broadcasting System-which recently (TIME, March 31) dropped Shirer's program...
...These agencies can facilitate thought and discussion. They can stifle it. ... They can debase and vulgarize mankind. They can endanger the peace of the world; they can do so accidentally, in a fit of absence of mind. They can play up or down the news and its significance, foster and feed emotions, create complacent fictions and blind spots, misuse the great words, and uphold empty slogans. [They] . . . can spread lies faster and farther than our forefathers dreamed. . . ." They can, said the Commission, and they...
William B. Foster, Boston...
Rockwood H. Foster '45, of Eliot House and Charles River, Massachusetts, is the squash captain for next year. One of the strongest men on the team, Foster finished the campaign by downing Princeton's ace, Longman, and then advancing as far as the quarter-final round in the Inter-collegiate Tournament at Dartmouth last week...
...Foster is the son of Reginald C. Foster '11, former Crimson track star. His brother, Hugh K. Foster '50, was the number one man on the Yardling racquet squad this year...