Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ingrained Misgivings. Seventeen days before the Army's satellite shoot, West Pointer Yates grinned expansively at wary newsmen before outlining the missile beat's first set of ground rules. In future, said he, Cape Canaveral correspondents would 1) be briefed off the record each week before scheduled missile firings, 2) get a detailed on-record fill-in on the outcome of some major shoots, 3) cover the tests from vantage points (7,900 ft. from the launching pads) that had previously been off limits to the press. In return for these and other concessions, said Yates, newsmen would...
...Depends Upon Our Printing the News," is the admonishing slogan that hangs from the ceilings of Fairchild's twelve-story home office building just off lower Fifth Avenue. Over the years Edmund and his brother Louis founded five flourishing trade publications: Women's Wear Daily, Daily News Record (men's clothing industry; circ. 21,687), Men's Wear (a semimonthly for retailers; circ. 21,091), Home Furnishings Daily (circ. 40,302) and Footwear News (a weekly; circ...
...stands bellowed with delight, and the pros nodded knowingly. Even with a broken hand, Pettit was still the slickest shotmaker in the business. Before he was through, Pettit had scored 28 points (an All-Star record) and taken 26 rebounds (another record), although his Western team lost to the East, 130-118. For such heroics Pettit was named the game's most valuable player...
Bless Bob. In the 1954-55 season, Pettit was the N.B.A.'s rookie-of-the-year. Two years ago he led the league in scoring. Last year a broken arm kept him from topping Minneapolis' George Mikan's scoring record of 1,932 points. This year Bachelor Bob, 25, was again leading the league when he snapped a bone in his hand a month ago, has since slipped to a respectable third (behind Detroit's George Yardley and Syracuse's Dolph Schayes). For these deeds Pettit gets about $20,000 a year from the Hawks...
20TH CENTURY-FOX, Hollywood's second biggest moviemaker, will soon go into record business, put its stable of stars (Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, et al.) on its own records to bolster sagging film sales...