Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador has sent us his answer sheet for the last TIME News Quiz, which ran in the July 4 issue. He answered 91 of the 105 questions correctly, and is inclined to think that is quite a good mark. It is, in fact, considerably above average, and President Galo Plaza Lasso should be proud...
...reaped the least profit. This year CBS has made $500,000 less than it did in the first half of 1948. Du Mont's books have a reddish tinge and ABC, which can least afford it, is losing most of all. NBC does not release a balance sheet, but it is no exception. Of 76 TV stations in the U.S., only six claimed to be breaking even or making money. Manhattan's WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, dropped...
...however, does not mean much to a Jap songwriter. Because of a record shortage and slow sheet-music sales, Hattori makes only about 7,000 yen ($16.66) a song. Last month he wrote 20, including several for his movie biography, Eternal Enthusiasm...
...Ryuhei Murayama, art collector, patron of the No dance, and, until his death in 1933 at the age of 83, Japan's most vigorous and imaginative publisher. In the 52 years that lean, white-bearded Murayama ran Asahi, he built it up from a struggling lo?al sheet to a national institution with editions in Osaka, Tokyo and Kokura...
Critics of radio commercials will be pleased to learn that these questions haunt no less a person than six-foot, greying Howard S. Meighan, 42, who is a CBS vice president. A huckster of 21 years standing, Meighan charged this week in the trade sheet Variety that radio's basic flaw is "the insincerity of language and manner used in the average . . . commercial...