Word: stantons
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...television confronted their tormentor, FCC Chairman Newton ("Wasteland") Minow, as the FCC last week came to the scheduled closing round of its three-year investigation of television. First man to step up to the microphone, according to the script, was to be CBS's suave President Dr. Frank Stanton. But in a prologue that could turn into a theme, the FCC first put on the stand one of its economists, Dr. Hyman H. Goldin, who in staggering detail spun out the story of network TV's rich growth from earnings...
...winners this year include Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.), novelist John Dos Passos, Herbert Hoover, Gen. Edwin Walker, Prof. Richard M. Weaver, John Wayne, columnist David Lawrence, and editor M. Stanton Evans...
...some executives have misgivings about tableless board rooms and deskless offices. Says Frank Stanton. president of the Columbia Broadcasting System: "I would feel a little awkward with just a coffee table. I just can't be that exposed...
...cabin-class smoking rooms and the tourist lounge. All the way across the Atlantic, the "fruit machines" (as the Cunard Line labeled the one-armed bandits) did a brisk business. "The slot-machine area was the busiest place on the boat, busier even than the bar," reported Passenger Stanton Griffis, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Poland. "You couldn't fight your way to them...
...hangers-on, with one exception (Payne, who did attempt to murder Secretary of State Seward), are merely frightened and bewildered. And poor Mary Surratt, kind, dignified and finally broken, goes to the gallows wondering at the inhumanity she can hardly comprehend. Stacton's villain is Secretary of War Stanton who organized the military trial, hand-picked the judges and suborned witnesses...