Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, Nov. 22). But he also learned that the big money lay in televising national sales meetings and other conventions for big corporations. In the past two years T.N.T. has televised eleven conventions for companies ranging from National Dairy (Seal-test) to James Lees carpets. At one such TV roundup, International Business Machines was able to brief 2,000 salesmen in Manhattan on a new electronic brain instead of bringing them to its Poughkeepsie, N.Y. plant in groups. Frankfort Distillers (Four Roses, Paul Jones) gave its salesmen in 19 cities fresh tips for selling whisky, along with a variety show...
...Football Roundup (Sat. 2 p.m., CBS). Scores and highlights from the day's games...
Mirabal's arrest was preceded by a general roundup of nine Communist leaders in Puerto Rico and one Puerto Rican Red in New York. Among those arrested was New York-educated Mrs. Jane Speed de Andreu, formerly of Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. de Andreu, a descendant of George Washington's personal physician, Dr. James Craik, is a well-seasoned veteran of the Communist cause. Once jailed in Birmingham for almost inciting a race riot, she is chiefly remembered for tossing an inkpot at the Italian vice consul in 1935 (on the grounds that he was a Fascist). Her husband...
...roundup brought the number of Communist leaders seized under the Smith Act since...
...Chicago Art Institute's 61st annual roundup of contemporary American painting and sculpture, which opens next week, will prove once again that the nation's artists are mostly sold on some form of abstraction. Doubtless most of the prizes, too, will go to pictures unlikely to win a popularity, or even most of the prizes, too, will go to pictures unlikely to win a popularity, or even intelligibility, contest. But ordinary visitors, to whom the latest fashions in art are immaterial, may find Jack Levine's trend-bucking canvas (opposite) one of the most rewarding things...