Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pint-sized Showman Billy Rose is so tickled to see his stuff in print that he pays $1,500 a week to run it as an ad in Manhattan's dailies (TIME, June 24). Only incidentally does he plug his "bespangled basement" nightclub. By last week, the fan mail and the newspaper syndicate offers he had received had not weaned Rose from his amateur standing. But they did show him that he might give his copy away instead of paying space rates...
Knock, Knock. First Emily cajoled the Board of Education into giving her a shabby old brick school building in downtown Denver-and appropriating some money.* Then she persuaded the Denver Post and the Denver trolley cars to plug the idea in stories and signs. Within a month after Emily Griffith's new Opportunity School had opened its doors, it had 600 students. Opportunity taught anybody (one, a retired barber, was 82). Over the school door was lettered the simple motto: "For all who wish to learn...
...outstanding jobs. To remote Alaska, it has brought news from the outside, glamorized news from the inside. It has also presented one of the best entertainment schedules heard on the continent. By using commercial-free Armed Forces Radio Service records, KFAR offers the pick of U.S. fare without plug-uglies. Its record library gives Alaskans the music they like best: symphonies and operatic arias. Most popular non-musical program: Tundra Topics, full of each day's sourdough gossip (who is prospecting where, conditions on Woodchopper Creek...
...Jubilee committee wanted a plug in here, too. All they'd say about Mr. Rose's comments was, "Don't believe what you read in the papers...
...lost their piano player. Since Liberation, they had turned to a squad of American G.I.s for music and entertainment. But Yanks in France had dwindled to fewer than 30,000 ; now the American Forces Network -the best in U.S. radio - was packing its tubes and preparing to pull the plug. To their French fans, it was a crisis of the first order...