Word: sponsored
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Charges & Shrugs. Last week a group of harassed neutrals formed the Paris Citizens' League and signed up 1,200 members determined to get to the root of the trouble. The League disavowed any intention of strikebreaking, but its sponsor, the Board of Trade, bought a full page in the Paris weekly Star (circ. 1,700) to attack the union leadership as Communist. The League recalled that Kent Rowley, Canadian boss of the United Textile Workers, was interned under the defense-of-Canada regulations in 1940 and released in 1942. Although the Paris local's bylaws called...
Patter & Pace. In the brief six weeks of its polished existence, the Revue has climbed to a 50.6 Hooperating (bettered only by TV's two top attractions, Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey). Last week, it earned the most solid accolade of all: its sponsor, the Admiral Corp. (radios, television sets, refrigerators), picked up the option for another six months. It was no small tab. The Revue is one of the costliest things of its kind ($25,000 a week...
...number of the routines that made Danny Kaye famous). He thinks that turning out a highly professional show every week for TV is a "greater strain" than doing it for the stage. He was showing no particular strain last week over the news that he had a contented sponsor...
Died. A. (for Arthur) Atwater Kent, 75, multimillionaire radio manufacturer; in Los Angeles. The first big-time radio sponsor (Atwater Kent Hour), he got his start making electrical equipment for automobiles, switched to radios in 1922, did an estimated $60 million worth of business in 1929. He retired in 1936 and moved to Bel Air, where his lavish parties won him the name of "Mr. Host...
...obvious that if these clinics were to be effective they would need the broadest participation possible. That meant that while NSA could sponsor the clinics and see that they got organized, once the clinics started, they would have to include non-NSA schools and would have to be independent of the sponsoring organization...