Word: stanton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Football & Four Roses. T.N.T. was started just five years ago by Nathan Halpern, a University of Southern California graduate who worked as assistant to CBS President Frank Stanton before deciding to go into closed-circuit TV. He thought that movie theaters would be glad to get back some of the customers they had lost...
...Another. Controversy raged as usual throughout the week, with the accepted number of politicians and experts appearing on forums and giving in most cases simple answers to complicated problems. Some of the week's best debates took place off the air. CBS President Frank Stanton protested the ban on TV coverage of the forthcoming McCarthy investigations. When reporters pointed out that CBS had not bothered to televise the Army-McCarthy hearings, Stanton argued that it was the principle that mattered: "We want the same access to the hearings as is given the press. Like the press, we then reserve...
...STANTON A. WATERMAN Sargentville...
Hidden Bodies. By week's end the dust was settling a little. General Motors eagerly jumped in to fill the sponsor's gap on the Godfrey & His Friends show and other advertisers were lining up to replace Chesterfield in the open radio &. TV "segments. CBS President Frank Stanton saw the rupture merely as a matter of personalities: "There are no hidden bodies. It was just a lot of little things. For over two years we couldn't get together on renewing a contract. It's a little like a divorce is sometimes...
...biographies tackled subjects from the great age of exploration and produced fresh material and absorbing stories: Bradford Smith's Captain John Smith (no kin) and Kathleen Romoli's Balboa of Darien. Two frequently misunderstood figures were straightened out again: Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were...