Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...viewer's sight. CBS's The Twentieth Century is a gilt-edged newcomer, and on NBC, Omnibus has dropped the apron strings of the Ford Foundation without a break in its stride. After a slow start, The Seven Lively Arts gave the season its liveliest artistic success and costliest flop ($1,250,000), in the absence of sponsors, and taught its uncomfortable host, TV Critic John Crosby, that where criticism is concerned, it is more blessed to give than to receive (TIME, Nov. 18). CBS's decision to present sponsored major-league baseball on Sunday afternoons starting...
...Australia, reported Health Minister Donald A. Cameron, the polio vaccination program has been a huge success: 90% of all children under 15 have had some vaccine (made in Australia to the Salk formula) and half have had a full three-shot course. Cases in 1957 numbered only 138, compared with an average of 1,600 in the twelve previous years...
...worker affectionately scrawled in soap on the hood: "Bye, bye, baby." It signaled the end of the two-seater T-bird; this week Ford put out the car's 1958 successor, the ballyhooed four-seater. Ford's affection for the T-bird sprang from its surprising success. Ford expected to lose some $10 million on the car but make it up in added prestige for standard Fords. Instead, it sold twice as well as expected (53,166 produced in all), and made a profit to boot. The sleek new T-bird will be another entry in Ford...
Sweet Smell of Success. Scriptwriters Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman go fishing with a fine line of gab in the moral sewer-the pipeline of a well-known gossip columnist-that runs under Broadway (TIME, June...
...Providence has under its special care children, idiots, and the United States of America." This famed remark, attributed to Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth), was a Briton's backhanded way of saying that the U.S. was a success. With few such perceptive quips but a relentless, mind-clogging avalanche of scholarly quotes, furrow-browed Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, 55, says much the same thing in his physically massive (1,036 pages) survey of America as a Civilization. The unavowed note of irony is that, like many a liberal-leftist prodigal son of the age, Lerner, who regularly...