Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side to face the cracks in the wall, and watched intently as a black window spider crept slowly over the Dali. Somehow, it seemed to fit; it was right. The hands on the grandfather clock in the corner told Dilworth he had precious few minutes to resolve the question, for if breakfast was indeed being served, the dining hall would soon close...
...save ABC from being crushed by its two bigger competitors. During Kintner's presidency, ABC added 60 stations, boosted ratings. Kintner signed up Disneyland (for $2,000,000), built a good newscasting staff, including John Daly. He also turned down a chance to sign up The $64,000 Question: "It didn't seem to make sense-not, I hasten to add, because of moral grounds...
...answer to that key question has long been a subject of controversy because most Government and private statistics do not take into account such factors as price rises, and because they are based on arbitrarily selected short periods of years. Last week the privately financed Committee for Economic Development announced a new set of charts called the Growth Reckoner, boldly designed to avoid the error possibilities inherent in most official U.S. statistics...
...that have touched the lips of more U.S. women than those of any other maker. Last week, at 53, trim (5 ft., 8½ in., 144 lbs.), handsome Charlie Revson ran into some embarrassing new facial shades: Quiz Pink and Umbrage Blue. As sponsor of the rigged $64,000 Question and $64,000 Challenge-which in four years helped triple Revlon's sales to $111 million and boost its profits sevenfold to $9.7 million-Revson was the center of a controversy over what part, if any, he played in the rigging. Revson denied all, told a congressional committee...
Gertrude Stein had survived World War II by a year when a malignant abdominal tumor forced an operation. Coming out of anesthesia, she was sibylline to the end. Her next-to-last words were, "What is the answer?" And her last, "In that case, what is the question...