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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposition. Instead, he tantalized the opposition with soft change-ups and calm, canny rationalizations. But mostly, he showed the voters that he was not a monster. Always he spoke softly and sounded reasonable. Two nights before the election. O'Malley's well-heeled backers organized a telethon in which Hollywood's most articulate stars turned out as cheerleaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relief Pitcher | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...marathons' comeback was apparently touched off a year ago when a Montreal TV station staged a charity telethon. That gave a Montreal pianist, Andre Mathieu, an idea; he staged a pianothon, played continuously for 21 hours, and was promptly challenged and outdone by another musician, who played six hours longer. A merchant in Shawinigan Falls (pop. 26,903) recalled the rocking-chair marathons of the '30s, and promoted a bercethon in his store window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Marathon Mania | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Songstress Jane Pickens arrived at a Denver television studio to begin a telethon appeal for donations to the National Cerebral Palsy Fund. After 14 hours on the air, with the fund $158,000 richer, Singer Pickens flew back to Manhattan for her regular TV show. Then she headed west again to Phoenix, where she raised another $60,000. bringing her personal fund-raising campaign in the past year to a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 11, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...week's end the Olympic Fund Committee picked itself up, went back to the job of raising money on its own. Far from paying for the Olympic trip, the telethon seemed to have actually slowed down the final drive; many potential contributors, figuring the fund was already well over the top, had put their wallets away again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Telethon Flop | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...experts figure a money-raising telethon is rousingly successful if it realizes 50% of its pledges. Martin & Lewis, appearing for the New York Cardiac Hospital, took in $1,000,000 in pledges, finally got $420,000; Milton Berle's fourth Damon Runyon Memorial Fund telethon last month has so far collected $210,000 from a promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Telethon Flop | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

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