Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feelers" claim there is more enthusiasm for affiliation with their union than ever before. "May be this is the year," Edward Sullivan, head of the AFL building service local, said...
...Sullivan, of the AFL says that his aim is to help University employees, not the AFL. "We don't want trouble with the HUERA or Harvard," he said. "We agree with the HUERA on policy, and the only question is affiliation. If they want us, we're ready, and if we're sure they want us out we'll stay...
...Director Sees, charged the Government, personally rode herd on the operation. Sees's motto, according to one witness, was "The more you squeeze [an advertiser] the more you get out of [him]." He often peppered his staff with such memos as "I notice Sullivan is still in the Journal-Post. Why? Why? Why?" An ex-Star staffer testified that Sees would "pound his fist on the desk and say, 'Go tell that so-and-so he's wasting his money advertising any place but in the Star...
...until last week, radio had been unobtrusively celebrating its 35th anniversary, but then Ed Sullivan decided to give broadcasting a TV salute on his Toast of the Town. However, NBC, still pursuing the quarrel it claims CBS started, refused to let its brightest stars attend. Dependable Jack Benny ran off one of his faultless comic monologues; George Burns added some needed spice; and H. V. Kaltenborn did a funny job of imitating Harry S. Truman imitating H. V. Kaltenborn after the 1948 election...
Four Different Hats. No old-style announcer, selling six or seven different products a week, can hope to equal Sullivan's devotion to one sponsor, and that is why they are losing out on the newcomers, who have but a single loyalty. Betty Furness travels from coast to coast for Westinghouse; the statuesque Roxanne. who does commercials for Sylvania. is a regular visitor at conventions and is always delighted to have her picture taken with the district's top salesman. Even Veteran Rex Marshall, who does commercials for four sponsors each week, is trying hard to adjust...