Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council next week will sponsor a debate between Russell Kirk, author and educator, and Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, and in addition, a student-faculty symposium, both on academic freedom...
...substantial success of his program has, however, largely eliminated the need. Every year the admissions office turns away hundreds of able students, and the fact that 20 out of 70 GM scholars picked Harvard is proof enough that the College no longer needs to sponsor such a luxurious recruiting device...
...show this month added another sponsor familiar to U.S. quiz addicts: Revlon...
...cruzeiros ($675); in Italy it is possible to win a fat bundle of 5,000,000 lire ($8,000); in Britain a Pakistani college girl got ?1,024 ($2,867) for her knowledge of Chaucer. Mexican viewers of The 64,000 Peso ($5,120) Question were grumbling that the sponsor was asking impossible questions to avoid paying the jackpot, but finally a textile engineer named Jaime Olvera broke the bank by identifying two of Cortez' scouts in his war with the Aztecs. Said a spokesman for the sponsor* (a shirt company): "This will prove our good faith...
Meanwhile sponsor Revlon is busy grooming a third entry for the quiz sweepstakes. This one, to be called The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, may appear on Thursday nights in place of The Johnny Carson Show, and seems aimed at bringing the format of Atlantic City's Miss America contest to TV with the added bait of a $250,000 cash award...