Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assembly had already passed eleven resolutions on Hungary, including those condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian rebellion last fall and demanding that the Soviets withdraw. The Soviets ignored them all. But to keep the crime of Hungary before world opinion, the U.S rallied 37 nations to sponsor still another resolution...
Samuel J. Novick, radar-parts manufacturer during World War II, reportedly sponsor of wartime Atom Spy Arthur Adams as an immigrant to the U.S. and backer of Communist causes and front organizations...
...human race?" The late Playwright Robert Sherwood moaned: "Calamity." Last week ABC's Kukla, Fran & Ollie, TV's second oldest network show (after Kraft TV Theater) went dark after a ten-year run, and all earlier sounds became mere whimpers. A New Jersey woman wrote Sponsor Gordon Baking Co.: "We do not intend to buy any more of your product." A Chicago fan complained: "I bought my TV set on your account, and now I'm stuck with the damn thing." More than one mother complained that she would miss cleaning the smudges her children made...
...Puppeteer Tillstrom. "People in TV would rather make money than provide entertainment." He was relieved to leave "the world of ulcers and tranquilizers. If a man has anything in his heart, he has to break away." Tillstrom declined local TV offers because he is "tired," and peeved with both sponsor and ABC for taking him for granted: "Neither has congratulated me on a show in two years." This fall he plans to "revitalize" his puppets on Broadway. "They are dying to get out on the stage...
Hard-boiled Buick Boss Ed Ragsdale was also burned. Said he, in a statement unprecedented in tortured viewer-sponsor relations: "As a fight fan myself, I was incensed at the inept handling and bad timing. As general manager of Buick, I feel that a public apology is in order, and I assure those interested that this will not happen again on any public-service telecast sponsored by Buick...