Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans for big-money shows in a class with CBS's The $64,000 Question. But it was only a few months ago, TVmen were quick to recall, that CBS was denying stoutly that it would try to compete in kind with NBC's loudly publicized Spectaculars. This fall CBS will flood the TV screen with at least ten 90-minute Spectacular-type shows. Coming soon (check your local newspaper for time and station): Fort Knox or Bust...
...fact and fiction, U.S. executives have always belonged to country clubs, and used them as much for business profit as weekend pleasure. But in today's expense-account economy, country clubs are assuming a new importance to established businessmen and young executives. With the spectacular postwar rise of golf, more and more companies are taking out country-club memberships for their men, both as a means of giving them a tax-free pay boost and as a sound business maneuver. There are few better ways for businessmen to develop new contacts, keep customers happy, sell their products and themselves...
Though P.D.'s F.F.A. chapter is only one of some 9,000 now operating across the U.S., it provides a spectacular example of what this particular kind of U.S. education can do. Begun in 1928 under the Federal Board for Vocational Education, the national F.F.A. program is an attempt to combine academic work in agriculture with practical after-school experience. The boys who join can buy livestock from their chapter and grow crops on ground leased through it. These they can sell for a profit, while the chapter uses whatever is left over to make a profit...
...summer shows were headed by Dateline Disneyland, a one-shot, Spectacular-sized look at Walt Disney's new amusement park at Anaheim, Calif...
...Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Svengali and the Blonde, a 90-minute musical version of George du Maurier's Trilby, starring Carol Channing, Basil Rathbone. Narrator: Ethel Barrymore...