Word: interests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your comments on the recent TV quiz show scandal [Oct. 19] with great interest-incredulity even. Why should anybody get excited about a fixed quiz show? It is quite obvious that the producers involved were simply delivering what the public wanted to see, namely, entertainment. Who cares whether a TV wrestling match is honest or not? Frankly, I can think of nothing duller than an honest quiz show, an honest wrestling match, or a play that captures dialogue exactly as uttered by real live people. It seems to me that the only group that has a legitimate gripe against...
From there Symington branched into radio loudspeakers, then, in 1930, bought from Sears, Roebuck a controlling interest in Colonial Radio Corp., using $500,000 borrowed from his uncles. Weathering the Depression by a combination of luck, good management and driving energy, Symington finally sold his interest in 1935, netting a small fortune...
Murphy, a career diplomat extraordinary, was retiring because 1) he had just reached retirement age of 65; 2) after serving more than 30 of his 42 years of service abroad, he had no great interest in accepting a presidential offer as Ambassador to West Germany; and 3) he had an attractive offer to work in private industry. In accepting the resignation "with deep regret," the President wrote: "I am aware of the vast contribution you have made on behalf of all of us in your efforts to advance a just and secure peace...
...having turned into a full-fledged boom, and the first favorable balance of trade with the U.S. since 1865 (TIME, Aug. 31), Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory proudly announced in the House of Commons that Britain was immediately repaying all $250 million, plus $5,500,000 in interest, an impressive 5½ years ahead of schedule...
...School's morale remains unmatched by any other department at Princeton, Carmichael claims. "Here," he explains, "there is more interest in work than among typical Princeton undergraduates." Absorbed by studies that have both immediacy and breadth, the Woodrow Wilson concentrator does not, Carmichael adds, "regard working...