Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much darker view. "Newspaper publishers," said he, "are threatened by television's sudden rise. That the publishers realize this is demonstrated by the fact that about half of the applications for television licenses have been filed by newspapers . . . According to many surveys and tests, television advertising has a sharper impact than advertising either in the newspaper or over the radio. When, therefore, five years from now . . . there are 11 million television-equipped homes in America, as against the present figure of only some 400,000, a not inconsiderable portion of our free American press may be headed toward becoming...
Churchmen of all faiths were beginning to suspect that the movement toward a united Protestantism might paradoxically increase the scandal of Christian disunity by making the cleavage between Protestant and Catholic sharper than ever. But others, like Italian Waldensian Leader Jean Gonnet, felt that the Vatican would be just as happy about the Protestant movement toward unity as the most ecumenically minded Protestant. Said Professor Gonnet: "Rome is well pleased to see other Christians marching towards unity, because in her opinion this will inevitably lead to a return to the fold under one sole shepherd-the Pope...
Some of the professional political handicappers and the sharper railbirds among the newsmen last week made out their form sheets on the Republican Convention. There were many imponderables. For one thing, no trainer or stable manager had complete confidence that his entry could be brought home in front with the needed 548 delegates (a simple majority of the 1,094 total). For another thing, while it looked like a Dewey-Vandenberg horse race on form, one of the entries was probably not going to start running until about the three-quarters pole. But handicappers agreed, almost...
...subject of such superheated ban-nerlines last week was a new colored movie process called Rouxcolor. Though hardly as colossal as the excitable French puffs made out, the first Rouxcolor films made moviemen sit up & take notice. To many they seemed sharper and more nearly faithful to natural color values than Technicolor itself. Furthermore, Rouxcolor is an impressive cost-cutter: it can be made with an ordinary black& -white camera equipped with a special lens-at about the same cost as black-&-white film...
...evening by leading the grand march at an inaugural ball. His day of triumph produced only one painful incident. He had been reminded again that Louisiana's voters loved brother Huey's 29-year-old son, Russell, better than they loved him. When Russell, a slightly sharper-featured replica of his snub-faced father, made a short speech, he got the biggest cheer of the afternoon...