Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, where elephants rather than robins mark the arrival of spring, Madison Square Garden was again playing host last week to the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus. This year there were no Stravinsky or Deems Taylor scores, no Balanchine ballets, no suggestion that the circus is a Fine Art. There was no need for the new wrinkles of the war years: there was once again an abundance of new blood. Forty acts-virtually everything but the animals and clowns-were labeled "First Time in America...
...Blue Network," mused dapper, cinnamon-blond Mark Woods, tweaking his buttonhole carnation, "was a dump...
...Network. When NBC got rid of the Blue (by request of the Federal Communications Commission), Woods became its first president. His first job: to auction off "the dullest, speechingest network you ever heard," a 116-station property that brought in a slim $14 million in 1942. It took Mark a year and a half to find a buyer...
...Sunny Smile. There are plenty of bright young wheels in the ABC machine. The biggest, Executive V.P. Bob Kintner (who was once half of the Alsop & Kintner column-writing team), is only 37. But the most important item in the plant is "The Oilcan"-easygoing, 47-year-old Mark Woods.* Mark is one of the best-liked men in radio, and one of the shrewdest. A near-genius at negotiation, he is often asked to handle the industry's top-level labor relations. Lapped in Mark's sunny smile, even the wintry Petrillo has been known to thaw...
...Mark grew up in Jacksonville, Fla. At 18, he went north, went to work as an accountant for "a boyhood idol," Thomas Edison. At 19, he got a better job with American Telephone & Telegraph, which then owned Manhattan's WEAF...