Word: telecast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The hundredth telecast, with Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope, Martin & Lewis, Donald O'Connor...
...House. Though Betty Furness is the star of its kitchen, the man of the Westinghouse is its $203,250-a-year president, Gwilym Alexander Price. It was he who took the gamble two years ago of spending $2,000,000 on the football telecasts that made Betty's face more familiar than the players'. It was he who staked another $3,000,000 last year to telecast the Chicago conventions, where Betty was shown oftener than Eisenhower or Stevenson. Price thinks the money well spent, modestly jests: "That girl's worth more to this company than...
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...defend itself and Western civilization against the political and military forces of Communism." (She failed in an effort to get a Republican nomination in Connecticut for U.S. Senator.) In all, she delivered 47 radio and TV speeches during the Eisenhower campaign. The most effective: a coast-to-coast telecast on the Administration's record on Communism in Government. Into her speech she cut newsreel clips and phonograph records of testimony from Whittaker Chambers, Communist Nathan Gregory Silvermaster and others...
...several hours with Eisenhower, advised him to stick with Dick Nixon (although some of Nixon's friends were mistakenly convinced at the time that Brownell had advised Ike to dump Nixon). Before dawn, he was flying back to New York, thinking through some advice to Nixon on his telecast. Brownell proposed the audit and legal study of the fund, which were highly effective in making Nixon's case...