Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio season officially ended last week, and it was plain that the year had brought a major shift in the positions of the two major networks. Four facts stood out: 1) NBC has taken an aggressive lead in TV; 2) situation comedy, long a CBS specialty, is on the skids, with only one show, I Love Lucy, still among TV's top ten (see above); 3) summer is no longer a TV-radio slump period; and 4) NBC is taking revolutionary steps to put radio back...
...still sleeps at his old house in Vallauris. At La Californie, Picasso has ripped out the connecting doors of the ground floor to make one huge studio. Pottery, sculptures, driftwood, rocks, paints, canvases, primitive idols, bottles and plain junk heaped here and there like the accidental deposit of a flood make the high, cool rooms seem homey to Picasso, who has much of Proteus about him. The only furniture thus far installed consists of some work tables, a few straight chairs and a rocking chair in which he reads his morning paper...
...congress last week, the delegates steered clear of directly mentioning Italy's exclusion of foreign capital. But toward the close, Walter J. Levy, an oil consultant for several U.S. companies, made a speech that contained some plain talking. Said he: "The functioning of world oil operations is based on the joint endeavors and the continuous contribution of all participants . . . Each participant must abstain from exercising such pressure that others would be discouraged from making their necessary and legitimate contribution to the world oil economy...
Moral Support. Whatever happens, it was plain that U.S. businessmen had been caught flat-footed by what had happened in Detroit. In Chicago last week, the National Association of Manufacturers held a special meeting to consider one subject: G.A.W. The meeting was scheduled weeks ago, timed to give moral support to the automakers' battle against G.A.W. But the sudden settlement by Ford upset their plans and angered many of the delegates...
William P. Drake, 42, became president of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., which produces more than 400 different chemicals, had first-half sales this year at an annual rate of more than $60 million and will soon start on a five-year expansion program. A plain-talking six-footer, Drake played football at Bowdoin College, leaving in 1934 to take a summer trainee job with the company. Drake was carefully groomed for the presidency by the man he succeeds, George B. Beitzel, 61, who will continue as a director, devote most of his time to the company...