Word: hub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heads, Popular girls are queens; unpopular ones are roaches-especially if they are also D.D.P.s (damn door pushers, given to hugging the far side of the convertible's front seat). Other automotive terms apply to a wheel's satellites-medium-sized campus lights are spokes and hub caps...
...passed over for the network presidency, then for its No. 2 spot, executive vice president). Said Robinson: "I will also be directly concerned with the job of creation, a thing I was getting away from at CBS." A short, suave, Brown-educated ('27) emigre from Madison Avenue, "Hub" Robinson has long believed in the motto "Mass with Class." and at CBS he went far toward making it work. He was responsible for Playhouse 90, the Phil Silvers Show, Twentieth Century. He prompted Edward R. Murrow to turn radio's Hear It Now into the television classic...
...Associates. Inc. he intends to try everything possible-musicals, 90-minute dramas, special events, tape and film shows from all over the world. Since he will own all the shows himself and will continue to profit from their residual income long after he pockets his hefty salary checks, Hub Robinson has latched onto a classy mass indeed...
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. An exciting writer adds politics to a projected tetralogical cycle (others: Justine, Balthazar) that wheels around the magnetic hub of Alexandria...
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. An exciting writer adds politics to a projected tetralogical cycle (others: Justine, Balthazar) that wheels around the magnetic hub of Alexandria...