Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winking candles, television's biggest drama factory last week celebrated an occasion. NBC's Matinee Theater, which makes an earnest try at bringing a full hour of live theater to 5,000,000 daytime viewers every weekday (3 p.m., E.D.T.). ground out its 200th production in nine months-the equivalent of more than five seasons of once-a-week...
...with about 50 scripts, six to eight weeks ahead. His editorial staff-far bigger than that of most publishing houses-includes a file of 250 contributing authors, rewrite men and story "doctors," ten editors and readers. McCleery's biggest headaches begin and end with scripts. He maintains a nine-man Manhattan staff to cull magazines, newspapers, plays and book lists. "There is no such thing as a starving writer any more," McCleery avers. "There are only lazy writers, off-beat writers and hacks...
Nefertete's flesh-and-blood prototype married one of the most interesting men in history-Egypt's Akhenaten. She was then only nine, so the story goes; at 13 she bore him their first daughter and at 20 their sixth. Akhenaten seems to have adored his lady, usually had himself pictured in her company He also insisted that her beauty and his homeliness both be represented candidly, almost naturalistically, thus smashing, for a moment, Egypt's formalistic art code...
...career, Kaplan set up a nonprofit company, brought in David Bernstein, 41, onetime newsman (Ithaca Journal-News) and public-relations specialist, who organized the Office of Public Information of the Philippines in 1945. Bernstein gathered a ten-man editorial staff (average age: 35), put in a U.P. news wire, nine comic strips, twelve syndicated columns. "The paper," he says, "is strictly independent. Mr. Kaplan wants and has absolutely no editorial control...
Problem Drinker. In San Francisco, after a doctor got her tongue unstuck from a pop bottle, nine-year-old Kathleen Owens asked for the bottle, explained: "It isn't empty and I'm still thirsty...