Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor at the new University of Miami, the news in 1926 was depressing. The crash of Florida's big real-estate boom had all but wiped out the university backers; worse still was the devastation left by the 1926 hurricane. Zoologist Jay F. W. Pearson might never have gone to Miami at all if he had spotted the headline sooner: MIAMI IN RUINS...
Last month Drew Pearson lost both his sponsor (Carter's Little Liver Pills) and his ABC network show. Darkly implying that he was the victim of a conservative conspiracy to drive liberal commentators off the air, Pearson said: "I even offered to work for free until we got a new sponsor, but ABC wouldn't take...
...this week, the alleged conspiracy was proving strangely ineffectual. Pearson and his staff had decided to put his show on tape, sell it directly to individual stations across the nation at prices ranging from $7 to $100 per program. He was soon signed up by 151 stations, most of them affiliates of his old network. By week's end the list had grown to more than 170 stations, with about 95% carrying the show under local sponsorship. Delighted with the good results of his particular ill wind, Pearson says he has no intention of returning to network broadcasting...
...Whistler, by Hesketh Pearson. A brisk, anecdotal portrait of the 19th century painter and eccentric (TIME, March...
...Whistler, by Hesketh Pearson. A brisk, anecdotal portrait of the 19th century painter and eccentric (TIME, March...