Word: tanner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surely the aristocratic signers of this document did not think that the weaver, tanner and tavern keeper were their equals. Let those who insist on twisting the facts consider the facts of history: all the Southern signers of this famous document were slaveholders-including our first President...
...Angeles last week, a 28-year-old inventor named James Tanner announced that he has developed a new electronic system for surveying TV audiences that may make all existing ratings systems obsolete...
...Tanner calls the heart of his device a comparator. It works with a sensitive receiver that pulls in a signal from a TV home receiver and compares it with all signals being broadcast by TV stations. The device fits into a panel truck that is driven around city streets, sweeping up signals from all TV sets in the area and calculating what channels they are tuned to. Tanner makes the ambitious claim that it can read a whole apartment building as easily as a private house. The truck moves along at 15 m.p.h. while the machine counts 106 sets...
Frank Champion, an ABC West Coast transmission engineer, declares that Tanner's system is "foolproof." He says: "I haven't felt so strongly about anything since video tape...
...iconoclast, wealthy socialist John Tanner, is a modern counterpart of his ancestor, Don Juan. Tanner violates conventions, rather than damsels. Cunningham plays Tanner well, albeit very seriously. His performance falters only at the end, when he tells the predatory Ann in an intentionally farcical manner that he lover her. Earlier in the act, the confrontation between an American billionaire, Hector Malone, and his rebellious son is also performed with broad, almost burlesque humor. But the Malones' argument forms a self-contained episode and does not jar the audience...