Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were showered with proposals of marriage, offers of post-war jobs. Gunner's Mate Van Keuren was offered a movie contract. They had easily stolen the show from Ginny Simms and Dave Rose's 22-piece orchestra. But Ginny didn't mind any more than her sponsor. Still stroking her rabbit's foot, she guessed she had a sure-fire program as long as there is an Army, Navy and Marine Corps...
...gayest graveyard began a new broadcast last fortnight (Bible readings) with a new announcer, Scottish-burred Bill Hay, announcer for 16 years of the Amos 'n' Andy program. When Announcer Hay finished his first reading, the story of the Creation, listeners heard a genteel plug for his sponsor, Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial-Park: its wrought-iron gates are bigger than those of Buckingham Palace...
This is right in the insouciant mood of his sponsor. Grief is sometimes inevitable at Forest Lawn, but never welcome. There "no signs of sorrow linger." This was the vision that came 25 years ago to a young engineer, Hubert Eaton, as he viewed with disfavor a debt-ridden, unprepossessing little necropolis he had been assigned to manage on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Promoter Eaton decided he would turn the 55-acre graveyard into "The Happy Cemetery." As a first step, he banned stones, substituted bronze markers laid level with the grass. Later he discarded the word cemetery...
Continuing its schedule of current events lectures, the Summer School will sponsor a talk by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, on "American History and the Peace Problem" tomorrow at four o'clock in the Lecture Hall...
Although the War Service Committee, sponsor of the drive, declined to call the drive as a whole a failure, it pointed out that the figures would speak for themselves as far as Harvard's all-out effort was concerned. Also, it was announced, that because Dunster, Kirkland, Eliot and Winthrop have been handicapped by a shortage of canvassers, the pledge drive will continue in these Houses during this week. Pledges will still be available in all Houses at the stamp and bond table, on the regular sales...