Word: smashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADVERTISING VOLUME will smash all records in 1956, predicts Printers' Ink. With all media ex cept radio showing big increases, total volume should top $10 billion this year for $800 million jump over 1955's previous peak of $9.2 billion...
...kind of traveling art show that does the U.S. a lot of good abroad was a smash hit last week in Mexico City. Government officials, university professors, art lovers and artists trooped through the ornate white marble Palacio de las Bellas Artes to see what a fledgling U.S. collector had put together in a few years. The viewers saw a handsome survey of 57 paintings and six sculptures covering 180 years of U.S. art, from a serene John Singleton Copley portrait, Mrs. Roger Morris, finished in 1772, to first modern works by Watercolorists Charles Burchfield and John Marin, Painters Charles...
...sing, and I sang," he says. Pat studied dramatics and speech at North Texas State College, finally landed a few TV spots, then got the call from Dot records. Such tunes as Two Hearts, Ain't That a Shame and, most recently, I Almost Lost My Mind, became smash hits, thanks largely to Boone's hearty, warm voice and mountain-style sentiment...
This reasonable goal was something less than what was sought when the conference was first proposed three weeks ago. Then the angry British and French wanted a fast session to whip off an ultimatum backed by force to smash the pretensions of the Egyptian strongman. But by the time the 200 diplomats and aides gathered around the hollow rectangle in Lancaster House last week, even the British were beginning to say that their utter dependence on the canal for oil imports was not really so utter. They could survive, even if put to great inconvenience. "Many are thinking," said...
...chorus of boos rose from the convention floor, some delegates stood, shook their fists at the CBS booth above and behind the rostrum and shouted, "Throw 'em out!" (Said one CBS reporter who was on the floor: "I thought they were going to smash our cameras".) Later, still fuming, toplofty Paul Butler charged "absolute sabotage," demanded that CBS carry the film with advance notice of its showing...