Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three other ABC shows, an advice-to-teeners column in This Week magazine, interests in record-and music-publishing companies and other items, all adding up to an estimated annual income of $500,000. In the general uproar about payola, the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight last week inevitably got around to Dick Clark, the nation's most powerful disk jockey...
Some people think less of him. Says Arnold Shaw of the music-publishing firm of E. B. Marks: "Someone like Clark is a one-man trust." Adds Marty Mills of Mills Music, Inc.: "People know that Clark will lay it on [i.e., plug a song] if he's got any stake...
...Palace of Science is a cathedral of know-how. Few worship harder than 400 Chinese students, the biggest foreign group. They keep to themselves, deplore pleasure of any kind. One Chinese student made the mistake of skipping lunches and saving enough money for a radio. When his comrades got the word, he was severely reprimanded, told that all savings should go to "national welfare." He promptly sold his little radio and sent the money to Peking...
With the boss's boy leading the way, others among Russia's leading journalists got the idea, began breaking old molds. In an unprecedented gesture, Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta last week agreed to run a 1,100-word letter from U.S. Author Charles Neider, defending The Autobiography of Mark Twain, which he edited, against a hostile review in the Russian literary journal...
...News & World Report an interview with Iowa Corn Farmer Roswell Garst, who played host to Khrushchev during the Soviet Chairman's U.S. visit last September. Garst's frank talk about Russian agriculture (still primitive by U.S. standards) and Khrushchev (rough, tough and cruel, but "not all black") got by untouched...