Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games that this book has created in Cambridge is called Who the Hell is Leonie St. John? And there are those who think they know. An intricate network has been established, identifying not only "Miss" St. John, but each of the protagonists. Most of the characters and names suggest their own counterparts in recent Harvard classes, and some think they have not been changed to protect the innocent...
Sunderland found himself at the head of an empire which, besides banana lands in eight tropical American countries, included cattle ranches, thousands of acres in sugar cane, cacao and oil palm, 1,380 miles of railroads, 55 ships, a sugar refinery and a communications network (Tropical Radio Telegraph Co.). He also found himself saddled with a chaotic organization in which three men might be working on the same project without being aware of each other's existence. The company also suffered from memories of the freewheeling days when it was run by the late Sam ("The Banana Man") Zemurray...
Good Business. As sponsor, Jersey Standard is shrewdly buying prestige on the cheap. Production costs are minimal. Although the shows are broadcast in so-called prime time, the price is relatively low, since they are not on a network. The artists, attracted by freedom to do what they like, are willing to work for less than their usual fees. Twice before, the same sponsor has been inundated with complimentary mail while sponsoring cultural programs the trade considered commercial dogs: The Play of the Week and the BBC series of Shakespearean histories titled An Age of Kings. "We believe that there...
...stretched its tentacles across the Southeast and into the Midwest; by 1953 the company had its first transcontinental route (it now operates five). At that point Moore found that his fledgling system lacked the equipment to capitalize on the bus industry's greatest potential asset: the growing U.S. network of superhighways...
...Urge to Educate. The Columbia television lectures are characteristic of Erpf's operations. Seven years ago, one of his investment sorties resulted in the creation of a profitable TV and outdoor-advertising chain called Metromedia. Inc.out of the ruins of the old Du Mont network. Recently, when he heard that Metromedia had an empty half hour of broadcast time in the morning, ardent Columbia Alumnus ('17). Erpf grabbed up the free time and got the lecture series under way with the financial backing of Columbia Associates, an organization of Columbia College well-wishers that he heads. The purpose...