Word: franticness
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...salesman, but his rating losses on the network schedule pose a problem for CBS, which this season has lost some of its audience edge over an aggressive NBC and a fast-growing ABC. Another blow to CBS has been the slippage of The $64,000 Question, which, despite such frantic publicity stunts as an appearance by Jack Benny, dropped out of the Nielsen top ten for the first time in 2½ years. Strike It Rich is dropping right out of the CBS schedule next week. But given such variations as The Price Is Right or Twenty-One, the quiz...
...minimum" program for dispersing its bases and improving its capacity for getting into the air fast in an alert. The Administration, said LeMay, has done nothing since Sputnik I to speed up the minimum program, or even to restore the cuts that SAC took during the Pentagon's frantic dollar pinch in the last months of fiscal...
...youngest of five children born to a traveling salesman, Inge grew up in Independence, Kans. grimly determined to become an actor, saw his dream dissolve in one frantic moment of stage fright three years after he graduated from the University of Kansas (class of 1935). "I played the choir master in an amateur production of Our Town," recalls Inge, "and suddenly I found I was terrified, too self-conscious to ever act again." Later, he spent an unhappy period as a high school and college teacher ("I experienced almost the same terrors as I did as an actor...
...Coach Bryant tells it, he would have felt the same way even if the Aggies had matched Alabama's price with a $2,500 raise, and even if Aggie alumni had shown some fresh enthusiasm for the kind of frantic Crow-hunting recruitment program that Alabama grads are organizing...
...artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum's purchase list across the Channel, embarked on a frantic buying spree of "a picture a day'' in Paris that netted her a museumful of art at knockdown prices...