Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours drifted by like scattered papers. One commuter got off a stalled train out in The Bronx, took a subway back to Grand Central, got oh another train and got stuck all over again. Commuter James Hagerty, Dwight Eisenhower's former press secretary and now an ABC network vice president living in Eastchester, got aboard a train at 7:45. "The goddam thing kept starting and stopping in the middle of the tunnel," said he. "You couldn't get off and get a drink. I did the crosswords and read the want ads and still couldn...
...place cannot be found in the gazetteer (those who confuse it with Thomas Jefferson's home will be very confused indeed), but it can be visited five days a week at 4:30 p.m. E.S.T. on CBS. The network and the ad agency of Benton & Bowles, which hold joint fief over Monticello's doom-prone citizens, regard it with loyal affection: it is the mythical locale of TV's most merciless soap opera. The Edge of Night, the greatest hypnotic to appear since the video tube nudged the U.S. housewife away from radio's Stella Dallas...
Improved communications also help brokerage houses handle the load and keep their customers happy as well. From any of Goodbody's 39 branches outside New York City a customer's order is teletyped over A.T. & T.'s Finac network to the home office, where an operator puts it into one of the variously colored grooves in a conveyor belt to route it to the right clerk. Within minutes the order is telephoned to one of Goodbody's brokers on the Exchange floor. On normal trading days a buyer in Palm Beach can have his order executed...
...camera coverage brought wide- shots of the action but missed the of an event that network TV Brooks' endless calculations, swimmer Fred Elizalde leading the "Y" shaven in the skull of freshman captain Mike Austin, and disappointment of John Pringle after butterfly...
Since 1921, when Louisiana-born John Lee Denson broke into journalism at 16 on the Washington Herald, he has shown an itch to stay on the move. Along the years, Denson has drifted through assorted editorial posts on five magazines, a press wire service, a radio network and five newspapers in Chicago, Washington and New York...