Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pamela, 9, asked her pregnant mother: "Who put the baby under your heart?" Linda, 6, was puzzled because "men have hair on their chests but women don't." Vicky, 5, instead of praising the toothpowder of a new sponsor, Amion, announced: "I don't want that stuff. I want Colgate's." And Sandra, 11, asked her father what "S.O.B." meant...
Abuse of academic freedom threatened another American college this week when the University of Michigan temporarily banned two allegedly subversive lecture from appearing on campus. The Michigan Lecture Committee withheld permission to undergraduate organizations to sponsor the speakers "until sufficient evidence is produced" to guarantee the "purity" of their speeches. "Sufficient evidence" was not defined...
S.N.V.A. is the new formal name for the pacifist group which was formed is the University last fall, but has not been able to get the two faculty sponsors necessary for a University charter. Robert W. Tucker '53, speaking for the group's executive committee last night, said that Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, had agreed to sponsor the group, Raphael Demos, professor of Philosophy, would also "probably agree...
...they have fulfilled the membership list rule, they have yet to find even one member of the faculty willing to act as their adviser. This is not surprising, considering the strength of McCarthyism and allied dogmas; we can hardly condemn those faculty members who, though they may wish to sponsor the HYP Club, do not care to give Red-hunters another opportunity to attack them. Yet their refusals may mean the end of the Young Progressives as a recognized organization...
...past year, Columnist Drew Pearson has been without a full-time sponsor for his radio show (Sun. 6 p.m., ABC). Adam Hat Stores, his sponsor for a year and a half, dropped him a few weeks after Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, with the protection of his Senator's privilege, denounced Pearson on the floor of the Senate as a "Communist tool," and called for a boycott on Adam Hats (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951). Last week Pearson finally seemed to have beaten the McCarthy hex. Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid) signed him to a 52-week radio...