Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't TIME publish articles about our great Galveston wharves, the lifeline of our city, or about the tourist attraction, which is a beautiful, 32-mile public beach with hotels, motels and recreational facilities? Galveston is also the favorite convention spot for many nationwide organizations...
...like magic. Later, in vaudeville, Bill hoofed up with a singer named Dave Hodges, who changed his name to Barnum so the pair could work their way around the country as Bailey & Barnum. They were a sort of circus minimus until a Manhattan impresario gave them a five-minute spot in Fred and Adele Astaire's Lady, Be Good. The playbill did not mention their act, Bailey says airily, but "it stopped the show. I remember the pit musicians claiming overtime...
...more than eased the pain of losing out in a power squeeze at CBS-TV (Robinson was passed over for the network presidency, then for its No. 2 spot, executive vice president). Said Robinson: "I will also be directly concerned with the job of creation, a thing I was getting away from at CBS." A short, suave, Brown-educated ('27) emigre from Madison Avenue, "Hub" Robinson has long believed in the motto "Mass with Class." and at CBS he went far toward making it work. He was responsible for Playhouse 90, the Phil Silvers Show, Twentieth Century. He prompted...
MASSACHUSETTS' Senator Jack Kennedy, front runner in all the polls, is (in the Truman-Rayburn view) too young (42), with the massive additional handicap of being a Roman Catholic. But Truman and Rayburn agreed that Kennedy is a top prospect for second spot on any ticket...
...will serve as chairman until his retirement in July. Geneen's resignation came as a surprise to Raytheon President Charles Francis Adams and a shock to Wall Street. Geneen simply walked into Adams' office and announced: "I'm resigning." Company insiders say Geneen wanted Adams' spot as chief executive, realized that Adams was not about to yield. Geneen's resignation sent Raytheon's stock down 6½ points, touching off a wave of selling of other electronic issues. Reason: in his three years with Raytheon, Geneen, who came from a top post at Jones...