Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Butcher, then manager of the rival CBS station WJSV, was quick to grab him. In the deal, WJSV (now WTOP) got most of Godfrey's morning audience and 80% of his former sponsors. NBC retaliated by bringing down a New York announcer named Don Douglas to buck Arthur...
The Diplomat moves airily about from Moscow to Iran to London, casually drags in Stalin, Vishinsky and Molotov as if they were handy stage extras, uses embassies and the halls of Parliament as if they were interchangeable stage props, Lord Essex, half Blimpish charlatan, half rhesterfieldian dandy, is too close...
Out of 250 human societies he had studied, 70% permit "sexual experimentation" before marriage, Professor Murdock told the 37th annual meeting of the American Social Hygiene Association, in Manhattan. Anthropologist Murdock wished more power to "socially controlled premarital experimentation." Said he: "The sexual laxity current among our own youth is...
Juan Gris was an artist who earned respect, if not popularity. His severely cubist paintings, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, were mostly classics of their kind. Gris's favorite props-wine bottles, clay pipes, books, newspapers and guitars-were crowded into compositions as slick and tight...
The only possibility for a last minute change in the lineup that knocked the props out from under the otherwise successful Dartmouth and Brown freshmen would be the substitution of Law Brown for Bitsy Grant in the right-wing slot.