Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite their air-conditioned offices and silk suits, the executives of the nation's three television networks have good reason to sweat this summer. Never before have program sales for the fall and winter season fallen so far behind schedule. At the end of last week the three networks moodily reported that a total of 16¼ hours of their prime evening time-the equivalent of five full evenings' programing for one network-was still up for sale. Value: some $65 million...
...week, full in the buzzing hot Ohio July, the Butler Institute of American Art was crammed with a new show of U.S. paintings and jammed with people to see them. It was no leader yet of world art, but a happy model of the small-city U.S. museum in summer bloom...
...from a Brokerage. The occasion was the institute's 23rd annual art exhibit, which since 1953, when prize totals topped $5,000 has become a national affair that gives artists a summer-season target worth shooting at. On the walls were 50 paintings from past prizewinners and another 250 winnowed out from the 1,701 entries submitted; they divided about evenly between abstract and realistic...
...shifting. For years, daring, lead-footed Italians bestrode the field until fiery death picked them off one by one, from Ascari to Musso. Spain's dashing Alfonso de Portago was killed in 1957, and Argentina's five-time world champion, aging (47) Juan Manuel Fangio, announced this summer that he is retiring. Today, dominance in racing belongs to the British, especially to flaxen-haired, temperamental Mike Hawthorn, 29, and balding, easygoing Stirling Moss, 28. The two are battling head-to-head for the world driving championship...
...rich, irrigated Imperial Valley, an El Centre Cessna dealer reported that he had already sold four single-engined planes to farmers this year at prices from $8,999 to $15,000. A farm organization has put together $1,590 grand tours of Europe for its members this summer. Says the proprietor of Knoust's Party Shop in Phillipsburg. Mo. (pop. 170), noting that farmers are among his best customers for cocktail shakers, blenders and bar glasses: "The farmer around here is an urbane host. The cocktail before dinner is as much a part of his way of life...