Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still worrying about the threat of television, Hollywood moviemakers last week struck a blow for the nation's movie exhibitors. The Motion Picture Association of America had a scheme for bypassing the living room menace-and TV broadcasters as well. M.P.A. tiptoed up to the Federal Communications Commission and quietly asked for a private TV "highway...
...request is technically feasible: an exclusive channel in the ultra-high-frequency wave band over which M.P.A. could televise both movies and public events directly to U.S. theaters. With TV broadcasters mulling over the M.P.A. scheme, FCC slated hearings on it for later this month...
...success of the Nieman Fellows in Journalism and the Advanced Management Program in the Business School has led to the suggestion that a somewhat similar scheme might be established for the young men and women who are concerned with the stage, screen, radio, and television. This would not imply the founding of a school or department of the drama. Indeed, it might be considered as a move in a contrary direction, just as the decision to proceed with the Nieman Fellows meant the rejection of the idea of founding a school of journalism at Harvard...
...essential conditions would have to be fulfilled before any scheme of fellowships connected with the dramatic arts could be successfully launched at Harvard. The first would be an endowment of at least two million dollars; the second would be the construction of a theatre building to serve as a focal center...
This situation is practically universal. So when Harvard oarsmen went about soliciting money for a fund, they hit upon a new scheme which they hoped would be more successful than the normal system. A group, unique in the University sports scene, known as The Friends of Harvard Rowing," was formed to provide an annual fund to be used for rowing expenditures apart from those in the regular H.A.A. budget...