Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of its money back only by plopping the show into a favorable time (Mon., 8-8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), and selling it to an advertiser (Noxzema) that had long been panting in the wings for such a time spot. Says onetime (1953-55) NBC President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, now chairman of McCann-Erickson International: "The networks today have abdicated to the Hollywood studios and to M.C.A." Adds McCann-Erickson's TV Boss C. Terence Clyne: "The networks are not creators or producers; they are editors and purchasers. More than 90% of TV investment is spent...
...highlight the contributions of Bahia to Brazilian culture, some 1,000 objects, ranging from gaily painted gourds and handsomely decorated clay pots to ritual drums (named rum, rumpi and lé) and the ornate paraphernalia of the colorful candomble religious dances brought over from Africa, have been put on exhibition at São Paulo's Bienal. More than 40,000 visitors throng the exhibition weekly; visiting critics, discovering a new folk art they never knew existed, have told Brazilians: "This is your great...
Soviet astronomy ranks high. Professor Donald Menzel, head of Harvard College Observatory, found Russian astronomers equal to their U.S. colleagues in imagination and ability. Pulkovo Observatory at Leningrad, which has a scientific staff of 400, is particularly fine. The Russians have some excellent men in astrophysics-such as L. S. Shklovsky, who proved that the glow of the Crab Nebula is caused by high-speed electrons passing through the nebula's magnetic field-but top performers are not numerous...
...small grocers are fighting the supermarkets hard. France's Fédération des Syndicats de l'Epicerie complain that "thousands of small independents have been forced out of business. If the wave continues, another 10,000 will have to close down in the next two years." Germans complain of the "foreign menace" to their livelihood, while Italian shopkeepers lobby insistently to prevent local city governments from granting licenses to the new stores. But the trend is all to the supermarkets. When a big new market opened in Milan recently, the strong Communist element there attacked...
...feminine psychology. Revson noticed that women's nail polish was poor, unimaginative, and marketed as if it were kitchen paint. He decided to cash in on this failing by setting up his own business when he was only 25, got Chemist Friend Charles Lachman (represented by the L in Revlon) to turn out new attractive enamels in a wide range of colors...