Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MUSIC IS another sideline. He plays the organ recognizably, but it's primarily a listening interest. Once he gave CBS Board Chairman William Paley an idea for gingering up a radio show, and as a reward gets all of Columbia's classical and semi-classical record releases. On other occasions, too, he has displayed unsuspected talents. When CBS was stuck for a commentator in its early telecasts of racing, Vanderbilt handled the first few shows capably. "I got a good notice from Crosby," he says. And during an early acquaintance with Ernest Hemingway, he became adept at handling...
Such virtue, the Daily Telegraph proclaimed on its front page, deserved more than its own reward. Melbourne's Sun and Adelaide's Advertiser heartily agreed. By week's end the extra reward reached $8,500, raised by the three newspapers as "a wedding gift fund for Frank Sedgman's fiancée," Miss Jean Spence...
With a thunder of hoofs and a "Hi-yo, Silver . . . awa-ay!", The Lone Ranger this week gallops headlong into his 20th year on radio. As a reward for fighting virtue's fight in comic books, cartoon strips and on TV (Thurs. 7:30 p.m., ABC) as well as radio (Mon., Wed., Fri. 7:30 p.m., ABC), the masked rider grosses $5,000,000 a year. Most of the profits go to George W. Trendle, 67, a Detroit businessman (movie theaters, radio stations) who had the original idea for the Ranger back in 1932. His formula for the show...
...ENDLESSLY BAFFLED AT THE NEVER-ENDING PLUNGE OF THE AMERICAN FEMALE, LEMMING-LIKE, INTO THE SEA OF MATRIMONY, TO SINK BELOW THE WAVES OF DISHWATER, BABY BATHS, LAUNDRY, SCRUBBING . . . NOBODY BUT A HOPELESS FOOL WOULD SACRIFICE HER FREEDOM FOR SUCH A HORRIBLE REWARD...
This hour-long escape sequence achieves a rising level of suspense as Howard uses his espionage training in car stealing, judo, passport forging, and disguise to foil both the police and his fellow agents. In the Liverpool warehouse climax villainy gets its gory reward, and "Clouded Yellow" establishes itself as unusually good entertainment...