Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crews, 20th Century-Fox Vice President Charles Einfeld fired off a cable to Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe, who was vacationing in Rome. In it he expressed "shocked regret shabby dismissal of our very important ambitious costly above all sincerely patriotic film" -a sentiment which, Einfeld pointedly went on to say, took no regard of "extensive advertising campaign in Mirror including two full three-quarter pages over and above regular space." McCabe did not answer the cable...
...trustbusters agreed with Burns's reasoning that a pool would serve to spur color experimentation, foster industry wide cooperation, yet still not place RCA at a competitive disadvantage. Before color TV will be a success, say commercial manufacturers, a better and cheaper way must be found to make sets. Said a trustbuster: "The pool is an RCA gamble to open up the field...
While the evil of fake price-cutting has spread into virtually every merchandise field, the FTC and Better Business Bureaus say that the practice is the worst on sales of refrigerators, stoves, television sets, mattresses and other household goods. Chicago's Better Business Bureau recently checked 23 claims of bargains, found in all cases that the presale prices were fictitious. Most of the bargains sold for less or the same in other stores. A $289.95 advertised list TV set, for example, was "on sale" at $249.95 but could be bought elsewhere...
Some soldiers send epistles, say they'd sooner sleep in thistles
...soon used to seeing his square, black figure almost everywhere, riding in the motor-launch buses and stopping for a chat in the cafes. His door was always open, and his secretaries disapproved of the amount of time he gave to visitors ("Let them come in," he would say. "They may want to confess"). At the Venice music festivals in 1953 and 1956, he filled St. Mark's with music such as the great cathedral had not heard since the 16th and 17th centuries, including the world première of Stravinsky's moving Sacred Canticle to Honor...