Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...award "for important contributions to civil rights" was made to football manager Frank S. Jones '50, who accepted the award on behalf of the football team and managerial corps, at a "Freedom Parade" program in Carnegie Hall in New York last Sunday night. Jones was confined to Stillman with a virus infection but acknowledged the award by telegram...
With the customary portentous warnings, appeals to reason, calls upon Heaven as a witness, and ceremonious threats, the 81st Congress got down to business last week. Members pitched into the presidential legislative hayload, and guessed that about half of it might be enacted. The program had its own special Congressman's nightmare: the thought of raising taxes*raised the hackles on members' necks and troubled their digestions...
...With tears actually running down his face, one angry and frustrated G.O.P. leader said: "I can't imagine what Sam Rayburn and John McCormack [majority leader] are thinking about. I know they're patriotic, sincere, honest. But how in God's name they can swallow this program is more than I can see. God knows where we'll wind...
...special "Schoolradio" broadcast, Danish children were having their first occasion to listen to their Royal Family's teatime conversation. The program was unrehearsed. King, Queen and Royal Princesses were just their normal selves. Even the coughs of five-year-old Princess Benedikte and of Anne-Marie, 2½, both recovering from whooping cough, were clearly heard by Denmark's schoolchildren...
...segment from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., according to last week's Hooperatings, CBS had piled up a commanding lead. Jack Benny, moving from NBC to CBS, not only carried most of his listening audience with him but appeared to have bolstered CBS shows before & after his program. On CBS at 6:30, ear-jarring Spike Jones had climbed a few pegs, while Ozzie & Harriet on NBC dropped a few. Horace Heidt, hastily switched by NBC from 10:30 p.m. (where he had polled 17.3%) to the spot opposite Benny, sagged to 11.4%. CBS's Amos...