Word: nabbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anticipate any trouble," Randall said yesterday, "but if they do try anything, we're ready to nab them...
With well-paced acts, some high-level ad-lib talk and a genial approach, This Is Broadway last week was one of the first of the summer TV sustaining shows to nab a fall sponsor-AVCO's Crosley Division (radios & TV sets). Though gratified by the windfall, Fadiman (who had been against the serious approach from the beginning) had urged all along that Broadway be changed from an hour-long show to its present 30 minutes. "One thing about this show," he once mused, "it's delightfully improvable...
Despite their peril, South Koreans still hope as well as fear. At Kaesong, a border city which North Koreans often raid (they killed 30 people there last fortnight), I visited the lovely garden of a wealthy Korean. The owner had moved to Seoul months ago, fearing Communists would nab him. But his gardens are perfectly kept. The head gardener, surprised by my surprise at this, explained: "He hopes to come back. What is any garden but an expression of faith in the future...
Genial, bumbling Justin Miller, NAB's $75,000-a-year president, told the convention that he saw a faint light of hope. "I'm not so pessimistic as Wayne Coy or 'Deac' Aylesworth," he assured the delegates. "As long as radio profits are necessary to finance television, radio is not in immediate danger of giving...
...time we got down to specifics," complained one executive. "Instead of playing around with the birds, bees and flowers, why doesn't the NAB dish out the facts of life?" NAB's Richard Doherty replied with some hard TV facts: an average TV station costs nearly as much each year to run ($221,000) as it does to build and equip (up to $350,000). This kind of money was far beyond the reach of the average radio station owner. *At week's end, as the delegates journeyed homeward, there was no sure cure in sight...