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Word: withe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver, late of NBC, came to the network with credentials as program director for a West Coast radio chain, ad manager for the American Tobacco Co., and v.p. of a Madison Avenue ad agency; he was the network's president within four years, its ex-chairman three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Quizzard's Exit | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

As a sort of Quizzard of Oz, he had also developed Quiz Kids and Stop the Music. Thoughtful, well-read Lou Cowan ran CBS with due regard for public affairs programs (Ed Murrow) and serious drama (Playhouse go), but remained strongly identified in the trade with quiz shows. And the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Quizzard's Exit | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

To all these questions, Cartoonist Capp's millions of unflagging fans will find satisfactory answers. In the Broadway musical, the Capp characters were type-cast with amazing accuracy, and most of the Broadway players are there in the Hollywood production. The show's score (words by Johnny Mercer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Unhappily, the system sounds better than it smells. To begin with, most of the production's 31 odors will probably seem phony, even to the average uneducated nose. A beautiful old pine grove in Peking, for instance, smells rather like a subway rest room on disinfectant day. Besides, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Sock in the Nose | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Are smellies here to stay? Or are they just another cinema gimmick that will soon be one with the paper goggles of yesteryear? No doubt the public will get tired before very long of having its nose tweaked. But if smelliemakers can provide more realistic smells and make more intelligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Sock in the Nose | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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