Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lutheran church, which he is not expected to seek, since he wants to avoid further trouble for his fellow pastors. But, while he may be a man without a church, he will never be without a flock. He is, in the view of one of his pastors, the most popular man in Hungary today...
...rider of the West is not quite so popular as he seems to his dial-flicking critics. In an analysis of how many viewers watched which types of programs during prime TV time (7 to 10:30 p.m.) on the three networks last winter, the A.C. Nielsen Co. found that horse operas were still trailing variety shows. The ranking, according to each category's share of audience viewing time through the week...
...times, the popular British press seems to look on the U.S. as a wide-screen immorality play of freaks and fools, wantonness and wealth. Some recent samples of wild-eyed British reporting...
...form of advertising promotion is the giveaway. This year U.S. businesses will hand out $16 million worth of appliances, cars, cameras and bric-a-brac on 22 network shows seen by most of the nation's 43 million TV homes, and 250 local radio and TV programs. So popular are the shows that this week CBS and NBC each will add three new TV giveaway programs. NBC and ABC will start two more later in July...
...current king of the proxy fighters is a tough-talking, dapper Washington lawyer named Alfons Landa, who admits that his role in more than half a dozen battles has made him "as popular as a skunk." Last week Landa, 60, won his biggest battle by unseating pudgy Leopold Silberstein, 54, from the sick Penn-Texas Corp., taking over as president at $36,000 a year. (Silberstein will collect $40,000 a year for five years as an "adviser.") Landa got into the fight nearly two years ago when Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse decided to back him financially...