Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moon. The cost of covering the coronation for both networks will be nearly $500,000, with General Motors bankrolling NBC and Willys-Overland helping to pick up the tab for CBS. For a while, network circles buzzed with rumors of prodigies: NBC was planning to transmit a live story of the coronation by bouncing TV images off the moon, and thence across the Atlantic; CBS was ready to hurl its film from London to the U.S. by the latest thing in guided missiles. As of this week, both networks were apparently ready to settle for plain jet planes...
Events of the week include the "Senior Spread," other informal dances, a moon-light cruise, and the usual unpaid-for activities, such as Class Day itself. For all of them, the Class Day Committee is responsible...
...Case of Bucklin Moon...
...case against Collier's Bucklin Moon [TiME, April 27] is the most exasperating of a long list of outrageous indignities. Do we Americans realize the dire condition of intellectual restraint now exercised in this country of ours? Not only can every crank discredit the object of his disfavor by labeling him a Communist, but it has now become extremely unwise for anyone to go to the victim's defense...
Amidst the news of its big change, Collier's more quietly attended to a small one. Editor Roger Dakin, who recently fired Associate Fiction Editor Bucklin Moon after Collier's had received unsupported charges that Moon once belonged to Communist-front organizations (TIME, April 27), last week fired Fiction Editor MacLennan Farrell, 30. Farrell, who had been Moon's boss, had refused to fire Moon himself and had also signed a protest from Collier's entire fiction staff against the discharge. Editor Dakin insisted that Farrell's firing had nothing to do with his argument...