Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle of the calculating machines was producing near unanimity-ABC's Elecom prognosticated "less than 100 electoral votes" for Stevenson; CBS's Univac calculated 340 for Ike, 87 for Stevenson, then paused to digest a few more returns. The Republicans' own best calculating machine. Party Chairman Leonard Hall, was confident enough to predict before 9 o'clock that Ike was riding home on a landslide. At about the same moment, young John Fell Stevenson, the Democratic candidate's son, left his fa ther's hotel room for the moment, was asked the state...
...influence of aging (74) Nick Schenck, now honorary chairman. They have two hurdles ahead. Not only must they actually line up enough proxies to oust Schenck and Schary, but they must find a competent man to replace Vogel. They have already offered the presidency to Leonard Goldenson, president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Abe Schneider, vice president of Columbia Pictures, and Lew Wasserman, president of Music Corp. of America. All three turned it down. Said the Lehman-Lazard spokesman: "At February's annual meeting, the two investment companies will be able to walk in and take control without...
Parlor Carnival. "When the chips were down, the networks lived in their narrow, narrow world" of crass commercialism, cried Critic Gould, who appealed to NBC Boss David Sarnoff, CBS Chairman Bill Paley and ABC President Leonard Goldenson to "search their consciences" and "have a long hard look at their operations...
...beer in and hour and a half, the milling participants tried to cheer themselves up further by telling each other, "We're not losing by much," and "We're bound to win somewhere." The most spirited reaction of the evening was a loud hiss for Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall who was televised singing "Our boy is bound to score...
Nixon himself wanted to show his hornless head to the people of all 48 states, but G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall finally convinced him that this would be a senseless waste of energies. Instead, Nixon & Co. mapped three tours, one to touch as many states as possible, a second to concentrate on the weak spots, a third to work intensively in important and crucial areas. Convinced that the Democrats had started their campaign too early, Nixon decided to wait until mid-September, aim his campaign to reach its peak in the latter half of October, then sustain the high pitch...