Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubtfully: "You know, I believe commercials are improving every day. Next week we hope to have another one-equally fascinating. And, if time permits, we shall bring you another story." He has also, on occasion, improved that dependable old gambit, "And now let us hear a word from our sponsor ..." When the commercial is over, the camera comes back to Hitchcock, finds him still determinedly counting: "five hundred and eleven, five hundred and twelve, five hundred and thirteen! Thank...
...date, the Hitchcock shows have been adequately entertaining if not outstanding. But his grand manner and refreshing potshots at the sponsor have gained the program an impressive 29.5 Nielsen rating, a comfortable four points ahead of its NBC rival, the Goodyear-Alcoa program. For a rating that high, Sponsor Bristol-Myers is more than happy to put up with quips about its commercials...
...labor's support, privately deprecate AFL and CIO endorsement as a "kiss of death" in many campaigns. They point to the Ohio Senatorial election of 1950 where the CIO tried to make the Taft-Hartley Act a major issue. The attempt failed miserably; Bob Taft, the Act's sponsor, won by thumping pluralities--even in districts where a large proportion of the voters belonged to unions--and in spite of the CIO's mobilization of huge financial and propaganda resources behind Democrat "Jumpin' Joe" Ferguson...
...frustrated assassin, had nicked his head a fortnight ago. With Macmillan came Britain's chief military man, General Sir Gerald Templer. Turkey's bland Premier Adnan Menderes arrived last, as befitted the nation with METO's biggest army. Representing the U.S. as "observer" and backstage sponsor was U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Waldemar J. Gallman and Admiral John H. Cassady, commander of all U.S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean...
Other political and debating groups were reticent about actively promoting Mrs. Gaynor's attempts to publicize the Communist-directed youth conventions. The political forum does not object to Mrs. Gaynor's speaking at the University, but is not "eager" about her visit, and certainly would not undertake to sponsor her, chairman William C. Brady, president of the New Conservative Club said...