Word: macke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plant permitted Rogers to claim that he is now the biggest canner of soda pop, bigger even than ex-Pepsi-Cola Boss Walter S. Mack Jr.'s Cantrell & Cochrane Corp. (TIME, April 27, 1953). Whether first or not, Rogers and his sales-minded son Robert, 32, in less than a year have converted a failing brewery (inherited by Allan's wife) into a company turning out 44,600 cases of pop a day from plants in Compton, Peoria, Ill. and Sheridan, Wyo. To meet the demand, the Rogerses are still expanding, with franchised plants planned for Hutchinson, Kans...
...then Marx and Producer Lou Goldberg join her to pick from the survivors six acts to compete with the winner of the previous show. All worked for the famed Major Edward Bowes until his death in 1946. They formed a partnership with Bowes's lawyer and Ted Mack, the current master of ceremonies, to create the TV version of the show, which has been on the air since...
...Mack has carried on the major's tradition of putting an end to applause by repeating "All right, all right, all right ..." But he was too softhearted to continue the major's gong-banging when a contestant lost the audience's favor. Mack conducts rambling interviews with the amateurs, cracks heavy-handed jokes, generally contributes to the cornball atmosphere that satisfies both sponsor Pet Milk and the largely rural and small-town audience that stays tenaciously faithful to the show...
Besides Sharpe, other organizers of the Freedom Week movement are Duncan H. Cameron '56, president of the United Nations Council; C. Gordon Graham '55, president of the Liberal Union; David A. Hanson '56, president of the World Federalists; Richard A. Levin '54, president of the Debate Council; Newell B. Mack '56, of the Student Council; and Frederick J. Willman '56, president of the Young Democrats...
...time. Says she: "Everybody was a part of the movie colony in those days. I heard that the studio was paying $5 a day for extras, so I applied." She soon learned that student extras were in great demand at other studios and particularly for the rash of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach two-reel comedies that were being turned out. Result: Margaret set up her own personnel bureau and began recruiting fellow students for the sand-lot epics and near-epics...