Word: hamm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million, televiewers crowded around their sets to watch the opening ?ames of the 1954 baseball season. But before the first official threw out the first ball, they had to listen to hard-selling plugs for Chesterfields and National Bohemian, Valley Forge and Hamm's beer. Beer and cigarettes are today as much a part of the league and the national game as bat and ball. Few announcers call a home run a home run: it is a "Ballantine blast" or a "White Owl wallop." Sponsors have not only moved in on the game itself, they have also lined...
...first show suggested that aimlessness and a degree of silliness, e.g., Murrow's asking Stokowski whether his piano was in tune, might be the cost of its unrehearsed spontaneity. Biggest danger: sacrificing thoughtful conversation to idle chatter about furnishings and other things in sight. Sponsors: Amoco and Hamm Brewing...
...Into the Interstate Commerce Commission's new $14,800 post of managing director stepped Edward Frederick "Pete") Hamm Jr., 45, a Chicago-born Dartmouth man and publisher of such transportation trade papers as Traffic World Daily and Traffic Bulletin. The new ICC post, created at the suggestion of a management engineering firm, is a strictly administrative job. Explained Chairman J. Monroe Johnson: "The commissioners are engaged in determining the output of the ICC machine. Hamm's job is to keep the machine running...
...Cooney tied Dartmouth's Ward Hamm at 73 strokes for the match's medalist honors...
...school in pin curls. Last March the principal of her school in Antioch sent her home to take out the pins. Theola's parents rebelled, said that Theola would not go back to classes until she could do her hair as she pleased. Last week Judge Yates Hamm fined the Bartons $10 apiece for failing to send a minor to school. Snapped Ma Barton: "We're appointing you the legal guardian of our five youngest children to raise, to feed, to educate, to clothe and to care for according to your standards." Then the Bartons stalked off, leaving...