Word: sullivane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eero proudly walked off with first prize in a Swedish newspaper matchstick-design contest, collected 30 Swedish kronor ($8). The same week, his father received a telegram from Chicago announcing that he was runner-up in the international Chicago Tribune Tower contest, with a design that Skyscraper Architect Louis Sullivan hailed as "a voice, resonant and rich, ringing amidst the wealth and joy of life." Eliel Saarinen promptly dipped into the $20,000 prize to move his family to the U.S. When the family landed in Manhattan, Eero Saarinen was twelve...
Said NBC Chairman of the Board Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver: "Some people ask us, 'Why don't you try to beat Sullivan with drama, something other than comedy?' We've really looked into it, statistically and every other way, and everything we've learned shows that on Sundays from 8 to 9 we get largely family audiences, and that in that hour 99.5% of American homes will tune in on comedy. So we are going to give them what we think they want-a souped-up, slicked-down version of Tonight...
...show that Weaver meant business, NBC last week put the Bob Hope Spectacular, with Allen as narrator, against Sullivan. Said Allen: "I don't want anyone to think I'm rushing in with my sleeves rolled up to beat Ed Sullivan. It's a free country, and there's plenty of room in it for both...
...week's end, it was not plain that Sullivan agreed. To discourage viewers from looking at Allen's opening show this Sunday, Sullivan, no man to stand still while being shot at, was celebrating his show's eighth anniversary with a dazzling array of 43 guests, most of them from Hollywood...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Sullivan celebrates his show's eighth anniversary...