Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building to house it. Lincoln School became so exemplary an institution that many a bigwig, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., sent his children there. The thousands of teachers who came to Teachers College to study each year went back to introduce in their own schools Lincoln's activity program and other progressive methods...
...progressive than Lincoln, had been running large deficits (now aggregating some $240,000) because of Lincoln's competition. A T. C. committee headed by Provost Milton Del Manzo was reported planning to merge the two schools and to scrap most of the progressive features of Lincoln's program...
...spring, radio's small fry get their big chance to try out new program ideas. Reason: most of the big-name, expensive radio shows leave the air during the spring and summer, when listeners presumably spend less time at home. At summer's end, when the regulars return, small-fry survivors are few. Of last year's dozens of new shows, the standout success is Information Please...
...District Attorney, which will substitute for Pepsodent's Bob Hope, program on NBC-Red this summer, is typical of the vulgate radio shows by Phillips H. Lord (Seth Parker, Gang Busters, We, the People). Racket situations are dramatized and a Dewey-style prosecuting attorney goes to work on the fictionized culprits...
...picked from the studio audience, asked to name, for example, three vegetables beginning with S, win $2 for each right answer. If a mike-scared quizee can think of spinach, cannot remember squash or salsify, he wins only $2, and the remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there is still no winner, the money goes into next week's pot. Biggest jackpot thus far, a three-weeker...