Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Cross and ABC had another reason to celebrate: the Texas Co., which has spent $7,500,000 on radio opera in the past 17 years, had just promised to keep picking up the tabs. This was especially reassuring in view of the continuing decline of network radio programing and the high mortality rate of long-run good-music shows, e.g., The Voice of Firestone. To its everlasting credit-and to the extra delight of opera listeners-Sponsor Texaco has been as tasteful as it has been generous. In the three to five hours of air time it buys every...
...only be assumed that, like those students quoted in Newsweek, he is equating "Harvard" with himself and his associates. ...Although the results of the report made by the Student Council were vague and the conclusions drawn by Newsweek too general, it can claim to present a somewhat more objective view of Harvard than that gained from individual experience...
Worthy pointed out that although the United States boasts about its free press, "our press has bowed to an edict." "Nothing this ambiguity, "the rest of the world asks 'who are you to talk about the press of other countries?' From their point of view it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black," he added...
...ailing French barrister, his mother the daughter of a Birmingham solicitor. Father Belloc kept his family with him right up to the brink of the siege of Paris, then bundled self and brood off to Britain "by the last train for Dieppe.'' Almost the first view that met young Hilaire's eyes was Southampton harbor filled with German ships dressed with flags in honor of the Prussian victory. His father died soon afterwards, so his family settled in England. Little Hilaire grew up bilingual, binational...
...good side of Belloc was his freshly un-English point of view and the strength of character that went with his narrowness. His marriage is an extraordinary example of his tenacity. Kept dangling by Elodie Hogan, a Catholic girl from California whom he had met in London, Belloc followed her home. He traveled steerage to New York, then "gambled his way across the plains." When his luck and money gave out, he continued on foot "along the Denver and Rio Grande,'' on to San Francisco. Mother Hogan was far from pleased to see the "tattered and penniless Frenchman...