Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board Chairman Sigurd S. Larmon, of Madison Avenue's topflight Young & Rubicam ad agency, suggested to the major network presidents that a committee of responsible citizens be set up to make recommendations for TV reform. The response of NBC's Robert Sarnoff and CBS's Dr. Frank Stanton were made public last week. NBC took up the adman's idea with enthusiasm, expanded it into an elaborate proposal (complete with preamble) as neatly put up as a packet...
...summed up the citizens' committee idea in three words: passing the buck. Added Frank Stanton: "What is every body's business is nobody's business, and eventually becomes Government enterprise." Television should resist any sort of outside control. "We must be masters of our own house, and rise or fall on our own performance...
...Answers. Within hours of the Open End show, as Cook and Gleason must have anticipated, New York District Attorney Frank S. Hogan began an investigation into the Cook-Gleason bribery charges. Summoned, with Cook, to Hogan's office, Gene Gleason went in smiling confidently, emerged shaken and white-faced. Excerpts from his testimony...
Sprinter Bruce Hunter is on probation, but may get off next semester. Champion diver Frank Gorman's status is also in doubt. Both are essential against Yale, Hunter for firsts in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles and the final relay, and Gorman because he is the best diver on the East coast. At any rate, neither can be entered against Navy in January...
Diary of Anne Frank. An unforgettable drama...