Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back by at least a season, if not by years, TV's already enfeebled yearning to leaven commercialism with culture. The Manufacturers Trust Co. executive who sits each Tuesday night between guards (the real thing, from the same bank), to lend an air of reliability to the promised payoff, was promoted recently to full vice president. Gentle Gino Prato, who won thousands of hearts as well as thousands of dollars ($22,916 after taxes) in his five appearances on the show, was taken on as a good-will ambassador by a rubber heel and sole company at more than...
...this is just a beginning. With RKO's fully equipped studio he can make still more films, both for TV and movie theaters, can either produce and distribute the pictures himself or hook up with independent producers who need space and outlets for their films -a three-way payoff...
...Scribner; $2.75), might be regarded as a superior mystery if it had been written by a newcomer, but from the author of Fog of Doubt it is disappointing. This time Author Brand blithely switches the point of view from chapter to chapter, for no apparent reason. The payoff to her mystery, furthermore, is a disastrously frayed cliché. But the Brand strength lies in a vivid setting and amusing characters. Her setting in this case-an independent kingdom on an island in the Mediterranean-is as believable and as funny as something invented by the early Evelyn Waugh. Her mixed...
...Slight Amendment. Back in Moscow, the Russians maneuvered for the payoff: a joint communiqué which would bring India into the new coexistence ring. By persistent snubbing, Nehru had been able to keep Party Boss Khrushchev out of the picture; Nehru made it plainly clear that he would deal only with the chief of government. But the bromide he and Premier Bulganin prepared together, though it bore many marks of Nehru's literary style, was dominantly Communist. Though Nehru might boast that the Russians had agreed not to interfere in other countries, words mean different things in different mouths...
...normal. The overall contract package, including increases in wages and welfare provisions, cost General Motors 22? an hour per worker compared to 20? an hour for the Ford package. Reuther, it turned out, had been somewhat optimistic in predicting to his union delegates a substantially bigger payoff from G.M. than from Ford...