Word: sponsor
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Gain & Loss. Beyond Harvard, he has played senior defense counsel to the academic world, for "if there is anything education does not lack today it is critics." While at Appleton, he was a sponsor of a campaign pamphlet against his fellow townsman Joseph McCarthy. The junior Senator from Wisconsin has apparently never forgotten him. "Harvard's loss," said McCarthy of Pusey's election, "is Wisconsin's gain." Then he proceeded to paint a picture of the university as a "privileged sanctuary for Fifth Amendment Communists ... I cannot conceive of anyone sending their children anywhere where they might...
...Rich's producer Walter Framer replied by registering "surprise" that "we are being subjected to an attack for helping people who deserve help." His pressagent, Sydney DuBroff, indicated that the show would fight the proposed licensing and stated that "we have courts for the adjudication of such problems." Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive Co. announced that it had checked Framer's books and records and "found everything in order," but was, nevertheless, asking for another audit immediately. NBC, which carries Strike It Rich on radio, and CBS, which carries it on TV, assured newsmen that they were busy "investigating...
...news this week is that writing of a pretty high level has at last shown up between the covers of a 35? book. No old-line publisher need have been ashamed to sponsor New Short Novels between boards, though it is doubtful that he would have got back his investment from bookstore sales. If the book succeeds at the newsstands and in the drugstores, it will be the first real sign that U.S. readers are as hungry for good new writing at a fair price as some in the trade believe...
Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R0Me.) is sponsor of a bill that calls for the abrogation of citizenship of people convicted under the Smith Act, and the President endorsed this action in his State of the Union address...
Richard as a posturing, unsettled man, forever wavering between false triumph and real despair. Sponsor Hallmark Cards plans annual productions of Shakespeare...