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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With both CBS and ABC against his plan, Adman Larmon conceded that it had little chance of success. NBC bought a full-page ad in eleven U.S. newspapers to say that the network "assumes complete responsibility to the public for what appears on NBC." But the ad also insisted that "TV wins a daily vote of confidence in 45 million American homes," and rejected "grandiose schemes for television's Utopia." Unfortunately, NBC has so far brought forth no notable schemes, Utopian or otherwise, seems to be spending much of its brainpower working over the pity...
...Alger Hiss), did most of the writing. Husky, broad-shouldered Gene Gleason did most of the reportorial digging. They worked together on the 1956 slum-clearance expose, collaborated again this year on an extracurricular writing assignment for the Nation. Titled "The Shame of New York," it was a 62-page rehash of previous Cook-Gleason investigations that added little new to the encyclopedia of New York's seamy side. The Nation piece earned Cook and Gleason an invitation to Open...
...text of Jacob's letter explaining his position is printed on page 2 of the CRIMSON...
...paper (Pravda-circ. 6,000,000-official Communist Party organ, is incontestably the dullest), Izvestia became one of the sprightliest. Out went some of Tuesday's boring repetitions of what Pravda, the only-paper in Russia with a Monday edition, had said the day before. On the front page, once the unassailable domain of party catechisms, news stories surprisingly appeared, and the ponderous headlines (A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE UNITY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE AND OF RALLYING AROUND THE COMMUNIST PARTY) became downright breezy (I VISITED THE VINNITSA SPY CENTER and BONN FLIRTS WITH MADRID). Pictures bloomed all over...
...appealed to middle-aged people. Edsel was to strike a happy medium. As one researcher said, it would be "the smart car for the younger executive or professional family on its way up." To get this image across, Ford even went to the trouble of putting out a 60-page memo on the procedural steps in the selection of an advertising agency, turned down 19 applicants before choosing Manhattan's Foote, Cone & Belding. Total cost of research, design, tooling, expansion of production facilities: $250 million...