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...Congressmen echoed the outrage of the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission of Florida (state song: Swanee River) on learning that the nation's TV and radio networks have put Foster's lyrics in tune with the race-conscious times by banning such words as "darkies," "mammy" and "massa." From Tallahassee, Governor LeRoy Collins cracked: "Let's not put the whammy on mammy." On the other hand, the networks' practice was defended as "good taste" by prominent Negroes, whose pressures helped produce the ban in the first place. The networks themselves incredulously pointed out that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Whammy on Mammy | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...Except for a wartime tour of duty with the Navy, he has been with NBC ever since, and believes that he is still dealing largely in tact. Some of his decisions depend on sensitivity (the words, offensive to Negroes, of such Stephen Foster songs as Old Black Joe and Massa's in de Cold Ground have not recently been heard on NBC); some depend on horse sense (in the past year the word "hell" has been approved on ten shows, the word "damn" on seven shows, but the expression "God damn" went over the network unapproved when Actor Lloyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Tact Expert | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...development has had another effect on the Observatory through the years. Greater Boston's extensive industrial haze--as well as fogs perhaps as old as the Milky Way--forced removal two decades ago of the serious research equipment to a "purer," rural site. To the Agassiz Station in Harvard, Massa- chusetts, 26 miles east of Cambridge, the Observatory has committed the major portion of its reserves, including the latest of its purchases. Radio telescopes have the obvious advantage of not requiring a clear path of vision. The observatory already possesses a 25-foot instrument and is in the process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Timeless Nightwatch | 9/29/1955 | See Source »

...Massa made up for his fielding misplays, however, by batting in two runs on a double and a triple. Liebler contributed two doubles and a single to the Crusader game...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Crusader Nine Halts Varsity Streak at Eight Games, 6-5 | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

Holy Cross took a 2 to 1 lead in the third on Liebler's two-bagger, Massa's long triple to right center, and Jack Stephen's first of a pair of run-scoring singles. The Crusaders added another in the fourth, and two more in the sixth, on Bernstoein's wildness. With one out and a man on third base in the eighth, Stephens lined a sharp single to left, for the winning...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Crusader Nine Halts Varsity Streak at Eight Games, 6-5 | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

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