Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morgan snarls at his sponsors Friday evenings. Actor Martin (The Rivalry) Gabel presides at a limping, 1½ hour discussion on Thursdays, will soon be replaced by Songsmith and Play Doctor Abe Burrows. With 33 hours of such programming every week, WTNTA devotes 40% of its air time to talk. Says Cott: "We're trying to create a nonfiction station...
...taping his talk shows, Cott hopes to feed them to the rest of the stations affiliated with the National Television Association (he has already sold Bishop Sheen to N.T.A.'s Minneapolis station). By next week Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee will be ready with a show: "Singing, dancing and lots of chitchat." And aging (59) Alex King, though his health is precarious, shows no signs of running down. "I'm under constant sedation for high blood pressure," says he. "Gandhi and St. Ignatius Loyola had high blood pressure too, and we all started with sinful lives...
...mutations. Dr. Heller's waves are so specific that a change of frequency or pulsing can limit their effect to a single kind of cell, leaving slightly different cells unaffected. Since cancer cells differ from normal cells, there is a chance (which Dr. Heller does not want to talk about) that they can be damaged by radio waves that do not hurt healthy tissue...
...Ghost. Never has Detroit seen an auto executive like Romney. In an industry noted for hard drinking and tough talk, Romney does not drink (not even tea or coffee), or smoke or swear. He is the president (i.e., bishop) of the Detroit stake of twelve Mormon churches, was the leader in building a new $750,000 Mormon tabernacle in suburban Bloomfield Hills. He gives 10% of his $100,000 salary, and sometimes more, to the church. He reserves his Sundays exclusively for church activities, often travels to other Mormon churches to set up conferences or deliver sermons...
...Detroit's auto industry. Romney often leaves his modest office (18 ft. by 18 ft.) to drop in on executives down the corridor. When he has anything important to say, he is not above calling them together, sitting down on the back of a chair to give a talk...