Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arts and Sciences do to make its own Emmy awards add up to something more than another collection of meaningless statuary? The obvious answer was to pick a few deserving winners carefully and present the prizes on a tasteful show. But this time television avoided the obvious. In a season dominated by dull shows, the three-city, 42-Emmy marathon packaged for the academy by NBC last week managed to stand out as one of the worst...
...During its 30 years on radio and television, Voice of Firestone won just about every merit award but the one that counts with network moneymen: a high rating. Notified by ABC that prime Monday-night time would no longer be available next season, and with no adequate substitute time on CBS or NBC, Voice will almost surely die in June. Even a last-minute offer last week by Los Angeles' KTTV to tape the show and sell it to independent stations was regretfully turned down. Having put on a high-quality musical show for so long, and having...
...When Madison Avenue seers decided that the kiddies do not comprise much of a market, even a high rating could not save one of the best kid shows on the air. Sponsors deserted Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club, and this season it was cut to half an hour, all reruns. Next season, says Disney, it will probably be gone for good...
...coat of copper paint. In St. Paul, seven families buy seven new houseboats, begin the 322-mile homeward trip down the Mississippi to Clinton, Iowa. In Seattle, 1,000 boat owners, burgees and pennants flapping, parade from Lake Union to Lake Washington to herald the opening of the new season...
Sales of room air conditioners generally follow the thermometer. The past two summers were cool, and the industry's sales were slow, sliding along at roughly the 1956 level of $3.2 billion. This season is shaping up as the hottest in the industry's 57-year history. Carrier Corp., the industry's Goliath (total 1958 sales: $252.5 million), is selling room units 32% ahead of last year, and Fedders Corp., biggest seller of room units (fiscal 1958: $53.9 million), is running 10% ahead in shipments. In March alone, Westinghouse, which has air-conditioned everything from President Eisenhower...