Word: parently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those manufacturers who complain about our poor programing would sell color sets as energetically as we program color, there would be no problem in getting color further off the ground," snapped NBC's President Robert Sarnoff. But Sarnoff was admittedly an interested witness, since RCA. NBC's parent company, makes nearly all the color sets sold, and has by far the largest investment in color's success. CBS, which has no such involvement, admits it is not boosting color at the moment, has in fact cut its color programs nearly in half in the last year. Explained...
...week was to form the Home Furnishings Council of America, with a budget of $1,000,000. Among other things, the council will try to educate the housewife on the basics of furniture buying, will send speakers and films to women's clubs, farm and teen-age groups, Parent-Teacher Associations and firms that employ many women. It will also train salespeople-many of whom do not have the best taste in furniture-to help the housewife find out what she really wants, show her what new pieces will fit in best with her old furniture...
Near Relations. Popham's service with the New York Times was no coincidence. Both papers are owned by the estate of the late (1935) Adolph Ochs; both are run by his descendants and their relatives. In fact, the Chattanooga Daily Times can claim to be the parent of its massive stablemate: Ochs was publisher and owner of the Daily Times when he bought the New York Times in 1896 for $75,000. The Daily Times editor, Martin Ochs, 34, is his grandnephew; Publisher Golden is the son-in-law of Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who in turn...
...would be nice, of course, if public schools were well enough staffed so that they could operate responsibly on their own with about as much parental interference as the Overseers exert at Harvard. But they are not, and, since parents are their sole support, they do have a right to take a strong interest in the way in which they are being run. The belief in equality of and for all held so strongly by so many in the United States, increases the interest of parents in schools: "I know as much about my child's needs...
...Senior Prom and its underclass version, the Freshmore, are the two biggest dances of the year. All-night prom parties for the upperclass event are arranged by a committee of the Parent-Teachers Association in a futile attempt to keep students from driving 25 miles to Chicago night-spots after the dance...