Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange campaign," wrote Chicago Daily News Editor-Publisher John Knight last week. "Ike and his team will stick to the high road, while Stevenson . . . will campaign on a lower level than he did four years ago. It seems to me that the high-level pitch . . . is mainly a holding operation, which may actually lose much of the support Ike received in 1952 from independent voters and disgruntled Democrats. The Republicans, with a first-term record of 'peace and prosperity,' have a lot to sell. But they must sell it hard from now to November...
Such superb passages from Van Gogh's letters to his younger brother, Art Dealer Theo Van Gogh, plus the fact that Van Gogh sliced off his left ear during an epileptic fit, have prompted popularizers to portray him as an artist who raised painting to such a pitch of ecstasy that he went mad. The result has been to make Van Gogh one of the most misinterpreted artists in history. In an ambitious Hollywood effort to right the record and explain the inner workings of an artist, M-G-M this week released its version of Van Gogh...
Under the Banyans. On Wednesday, as the British and French foreign ministers spelled out their policies at a NATO council meeting in Paris, the Suez committee sent Iran's Ali Ardalan to make another pitch to Nasser. "A lovely talk," was all the Iranian would say afterward. At his press conference in Washington President Eisenhower said: "The U.S. is committed to a peaceful solution of this [Suez] problem." When the Cairo negotiators met a fourth time, they debated 105 minutes before breaking up in futility. Menzies was reportedly refusing to talk about any Nasser counterproposals. Afterwards Nasser entertained...
...Democrats will attempt a fairly sustained radio-TV pitch throughout this month and next. Republicans will start slowly, intensifying their campaign coverage in the three final pre-election weeks. This week the Democrats will experiment with saturation broadcasting: they will put Adlai Stevenson's Harrisburg, Pa. oration over all three networks and some 1,800 "blind" area stations. The G.O.P., understandably, is picking its stations, buying little time in the South (one exception: North Carolina, which has 175,000 Negro voters who might swing to Eisenhower...
HORSEPOWER RACE among carmakers is over, at least in the ads. Though automakers will nudge horsepower on new 1957 models up another 5% to 10%, the increasing criticism from Congress and safety experts will change the advertising pitch from zoom to room. Other 1957 talking points: increased fuel economy, more safety features, longer, lower styling...