Word: showing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Tranter is almost right: Artist Safran did show a one-way street-and says no one yet has been able to control bicycle riders...
...read your comments on the recent TV quiz show scandal [Oct. 19] with great interest-incredulity even. Why should anybody get excited about a fixed quiz show? It is quite obvious that the producers involved were simply delivering what the public wanted to see, namely, entertainment. Who cares whether a TV wrestling match is honest or not? Frankly, I can think of nothing duller than an honest quiz show, an honest wrestling match, or a play that captures dialogue exactly as uttered by real live people. It seems to me that the only group that has a legitimate gripe against...
...show three of the 200 Dunn drawings from this witty and informative book about those much-harried occupants of the executive suite...
...travels around the country to show himself to local Democratic politicos, Symington uses a soft and amiable sell, makes no effort to wring promises of convention support. The hard selling of Stuart Symington as presidential timber is done by his backers. This week, Missouri Congressman Charles ("Charley") Brown, longtime Springfield adman and television executive, sets out on a 15-state trip to drum up support for Symington. Around the end of November, Missouri's Governor James Blair will depart on a similar missionary trek to sell the Symington cause, especially to Democratic Governors. Symington's behind-the-scenes...
Executive Drive. By working hard at it, Symington has managed in recent months to improve his performance as a speechmaker. He still flops sometimes, but in New Castle last week, speaking without notes, he got himself across, livening his talk with touches of humor and personal history that rarely show up in his written speeches. Facing an audience sprinkled with steelworkers, he pointed to his days in the foundry: "I've poured my share of iron. I've stoked open hearths." Said a steelworker: "The guy's O.K. He's been in the mills. He knows...