Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mouse Club, and other Disney holdings including Zorro, a new film series full of the strangulated clichés of derring-do, and a six-part series called The Saga of Andy Burnett, featuring the standard heroes-errant of the frontier. Cartoon Impresario Disney was trundled about from one plug to another by his Mousketeers, who wound up the big sales convention with a tasteless routine on top of a giant birthday cake, plugging a movie called Rainbow Road to Oz. Peter Pan Peanut Butter interrupted a fetching cartoon depiction of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which Disney...
...questions: What does a man feel when he faces a decision that might mean the difference between peace and war? How do you reconcile the doctrine of massive retaliation with the Christian ethic?) Though NBC rudely cut the Bible-quoting Secretary off in the middle of an answer (to plug other NBC shows), the net result was good human drama, "After all," says Agronsky, "this is show business. The interviewer is part actor and must work in dramatic terms...
...minute spectaculars: Paul Gregory's Crescendo, a mishmash of American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical edition of Junior Miss; and a Cole PorterS. J. Perelman musicollaboration on Alladin. To plug the Ford Motor Co.'s new Edsel, Crooners Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra will team up for the first time on TV. And Producer John Houseman's new Omnibus-type show, The Seven Lively Arts, will kick off in November with Perelman's treatment of The Changing...
Since then, Conductor Johnson has continued to plug modern music, plus rarely performed classical programs, with the same zeal in Fish Creek that he shows in Cincinnati. Once, after receiving a note from a concertgoer scolding him for playing Bartok, he took the man to lunch, gradually converted him-as he converted many of his audiences. But he is still disturbed by the opposition he occasionally encounters. "The tragedy of the contemporary music scene is people's lack of humility in the presence of art. The public has become such an authority; right away it's good...
...their midst is flitting off with a beakful of their business. Icelandic Airlines has four vintage DC-4 Skymasters whose seven weekly flights between Europe and the U.S. are so jammed that the wait list runs clear into mid-October. Reason: while mounting costs force every other line to plug, for fare increases, Icelandic's rates are some $100 cheaper than those of its competitors, have pushed the lean little line from 400 passengers in 1952 to an expected 30,000 this year, with revenues of close to $6,000,000. up some 25% from last year...