Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jean Tennyson, blonde star of radio's late Great Moments in Music (and wife of the sponsor's president, Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America), had a frightening moment in a friend's car. The door swung open and the singer, riding with the friend's 18-month-old son on her lap, landed in the street. Plump Soprano Tennyson got a bunged-up face; the baby landed unharmed...
...course you have to make concessions to the sponsor-and to showmanship. But the insincerity of most of these shows! They're insulting the public, the way they talk down. The average participation-show M.C. plays to the studio audience; if the listener doesn't get half of what goes on, so what...
...meeting of the investigation committee last week. The CRIMSON has announced its cooperation in printing a special edition, featuring the old constitution in one column, the new in the second column, and the reasons for the proposed changes in the third. Plans for the Crimson Network to sponsor a series of discussions on the subject are as yet amorphous...
...appointment as a $1-a-year special assistant to Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Labor William N. Doak (after a few months it turned into a $9,000 job). His sponsor: ex-Congressman Samuel Dickstein, now a New York City judge. Garsson's chief interest: high-salaried alien cinema stars who might be proved to be in the country illegally. Among his interests: Gilbert Roland, Anna Sten, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Farrow...
...himself an appointment as an investigator for the House committee inquiring into corporate reorganizations and receiverships. His sponsor: Chicago's Representative Adolph Sabath, now chairman of the House Rules Committee.* Thus Garsson put himself into a spot where he could choose to report on, or not to report on, receivers, bondholders' committees, lawyers and others who profited at the expense of investors...