Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...past year, giveaway shows have been scorned by critics, damned by the Federal Communications Commission (TIME, Aug. 29) and apparently deserted by their once-devoted audiences. But this week there were indications that giveaways had not heard that they were supposed to be dead...
...York last week for the opening of the baseball season, Groucho was being wined & dined by NBC executives who were trying to lure him away from CBS. To Marx, a scarred veteran of four radio flops in the past 15 years, this was heady business. Said Groucho : "I'm being wooed for the first time in my life. I'm like a dame hot out of Vassar...
...Solution? Last week, with circulation past the 20,000 mark, Latin letters were pouring in to Acta's office at the rate of 200 an issue. Readers from six-year-olds to greybeards had the usual complaints. Poppaedius, said one, was "sordidum, plebeium . . . indecorum," and some fretted because a puzzle solution was omitted ("Quid? Nulla solutio...
...conference tradition. He announced that, starting this week, the conference will no longer be held in his office. It will be held in a conference room, which seats 200, on the fourth floor of the old State Department Building. There the President will meet the press, as in the past, every Thursday on alternate mornings and afternoons. Before asking a question, a reporter will have to stand, give his name and employer...
...line Socialist has worked harder at his job of telling the truth about Communism than a Russian refugee journalist named Samuel Moise-witch Levitas. For the past 20 years, with a little band of writers, "Sol" Levitas has carried on his indefatigable campaign in the New Leader, a weekly newspaper he publishes in a crowded Manhattan office at 7 East 15th Street...