Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stadium said, four companies have agreed to back one concert each: International Business Machines Corp., Trans World Airlines (T.W.A.), Loft's Candy Shops and Liebmann Breweries. Inc. (Rheingold Beer). For a check of $1,000 or more, each sponsor will receive 1,000 or more free tickets and get its name in the program. Now the stadium is busy hunting for more...
...party to be fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world. Last week, nonetheless-largely because TV audiences will stand for anything billed as a prize fight-the sturdy old Negro was put into the ring with Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, 28. It was a triumph neither for the sponsor (Gillette Safety Razor Co.), for the autocratic matchmakers (International Boxing Club), nor for the heavy-footed contestants...
...Passed a bill to apply the Constitution's "full faith and credit" clause to divorces, so that decrees granted by one state will be recognized by all states. The bill's sponsor: the Senator from the divorce-mill state, Pat McCarran of Nevada. ¶ Repealed an old but forgotten 1890 law permitting servicemen to buy their way out of the Army...
...article . . . about the sports-car race held at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas [TIME, April 20] was a shock and a joke to many airmen stationed here at Turner Air Force Base, Ga. Turner was the first base to sponsor such a race ... on Oct. 25, 1952 . . . The sole advantage gained was General LeMay's prestige. We of Turner Air Force Base feel bitter toward the project and can guarantee, when Turner has another race, the airmen will not support...
Duggan was far from silenced. He still had a sports column in the Chicago American at $250 a week. And, five days later, he was back with a new sponsor and a new vote of confidence, hired to do two half-hour sports shows at $200 each over ABC's station WBKB-TV. Said Duggan, by now used to landing on his feet: "I'm not trying to be a crusader on sports. I'm more like an umpire, calling the plays...