Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police leaves were canceled, and for the first time since the Communist riots of 1947, the army was called out to guard "places of strategic importance." In metropolitan Paris the police in one day rounded up 3,000 Algerians and commandeered the Vélodrome d'Hiver, the Madison Square Garden of Paris, as a detention camp...
Noon soon began to sound like a Madison Avenue adman who has made a suggestion that is unpopular with the sponsor. In effect, he said, federation was just an idea he had tossed on the table to see if it would get up and dance. He did not intend an immediate political union; all he wanted was close military cooperation and the removal of custom barriers and passport restrictions...
...MADISON AVENUE calls it "the Filter Derby." U.S. Congressman John A. Blatnik calls it "a lot of hot air." In the hotly competitive tobacco industry, the claims fly thick and fast, with half the firms advertising that their filter fliters best of all. To settle the argument, the Federal Trade Commission wants a single, standard test for all filters. Meanwhile, for what the public, the companies, the U.S. Congress thinks, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Those Cigarette Claims...
...that have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served as an appropriate curtain raiser to the Dotto affair; the story on Frank Sinatra's invasion of Madison, Ind., which became the talk of show people; and the Jack Paar cover story, which helped set an all-TIME circulation high for the issue in which...
Faintly but distinctly, the mesmeric boomlay-boom of publicity drums on Manhattan's Madison Ave. is heard 980 miles away in Columbia (pop. 43,000), site of the University of Missouri. Stout-souled citizens wonder what is wrong. Chamber of Commerce members writhe to the beat and get the message. It is so nonsensical that at first it seems to be garbled: name the new boulevard (boom-lay boom) after Milton Caniff...