Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.C.P.'s membership includes doctors who specialize in internal medicine and allied fields, but not surgeons; the American Medical Association, no rival, and the A.C.P. cooperate to sponsor the specialty board in internal medicine...
...Eddie Bracken took a slapdash poll. The comedian called 30 random telephone numbers, asked: "Did you listen to the Eddie Bracken show last night?" Seven said that they had; two volunteered the sponsor's name. It was a surprising response, because 1) it topped the highest Hooperating the Bracken show ever had, and 2) the show went off the air six months...
...gush : "I'd listen to it whether I were on it or not." Creator Benson, now one of MGM's top ($3,500 weekly) writers, is the show's "supervisor," a position that permits her to collect royalties and lead the sideline cheering section. Last week, Sponsor Lever Bros, received a recording of her soothing words to Barbara: "You're too young, honey, to remember when Procter & Gamble had this show. But I have a feeling this time it will really float...
...Shock. The choice of Koussevitzky's successor was something of a surprise, but not a shock. Koussevitzky's 29-year-old protégé Leonard Bernstein had long had the inside track with his sponsor, but not with the symphony's trustees. The post went instead to 56-year-old Alsatian Charles Münch, who first came to the U.S. in December 1946, has since guest-conducted in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
Bipartisan S.472's most earnest, effective sponsor was Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft, who four years ago was the foremost opponent of federal aid to education. Reflecting on that debate, Bob Taft had become convinced that it was not sound logic for the U.S. to let a poor state "do the best it can"-if its best was not good enough. Asked a colleague: "Then the Senator surrendered to facts?" Replied Bob Taft with typical candor: "I changed my mind...