Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Project building, locat- ed on Massachusetts Ave., near the Law School also serves as a training center for interested visitors from foreign countries. Both Ford and Rockefeller Foundations assign Fellows to study research being conducted by the Project for periods extending from three to six months. Private groups also sponsor visitors. According to Mrs. Gilboy, the growing number of these students is beginning to tax facilities of the Project. Both working space and staff assistance are available to the Foundation-sponsored Fellows...
...blend suitably with its schedule, selling the advertising time to Canadian firms. CBS produces almost all the rest of its shows, and with two exceptions-Ford Startime (half of its programs are imported, half produced for Ford of Canada by CBC) and the CBC-produced General Motors Presents-a sponsor cannot even worm his name into a show's title. CBC bars commercials from not only the middle but also the beginning and end of all its news and public-affairs programs...
...still CBS that talked most loudly and earnestly about reforms. Frank Stanton explicitly forbade his flock to accept payola.* CBS top brass also issued a decree to its staff that seemed to guillotine giveaway shows. The ruling forbids mention of brand names of products other than the sponsor's, also prohibits any other form of plug. NBC continued the practice of getting prizes in exchange for plugs, but announced that the schlock operation would henceforth be supervised by the network, rather than by independent producers, and that no bribes would be accepted from suppliers for the use of their...
Quincy House will sponsor the first House arts festival in the history of the College this spring. Lasting from April 14 to 17, the festival will include exhibitions and competitions for work in the graphic arts done by Quincy members and people with some relation to the House...
...widely used notion that all entertainment is built on artful deception, Doerfer warned that programs which "contain a deceptive gloss above the accepted tolerances of dramatic license" might be outlawed in the next session of Congress, since shows that lure viewers unethically are using unfair means to outdo the sponsor's commercial competitors. "If the industry does not successfully survive that crisis," concluded Chairman Doerfer, "it has no one to blame but itself...