Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another advantage is that time spent in managing fulfills the College's required athletic program. This year managers will make trips with the team and will sit on the bench at home games...
...Cliffedwellers in Cambridge this week, four come from Hawail, Canada, Brazil, and Malaya. The others represent 30 states and the District of Columbia, and five are enrolled in the five-year nursing program which Radcliffe sponsors jointly with the Massachusetts General Hospital...
Every British radio owner pays an annual fee of ?1. BBC operates on only three wave lengths: the "Light" (mostly variety shows and dance music), the "Home" (slightly heavier fare), and the "Third Program" (strictly cultural). Thousands of listeners add to BBC revenues by buying BBC publications. Radio Times, a sort of fan magazine and weekly listing of programs, has a 6,000,000 circulation; The Listener, which reprints BBC talks, goes to 140,000; London Calling is subscribed to by 16,000 listeners overseas...
Amos 'n' Andy sold their program to CBS for $2,000,000. Then CBS sold radio's most durable comedians to Lever Bros. For serving as "technical advisers" on their own show, Amos 'n' Andy will get an additional annual fee from CBS. The plan behind this dizzying high finance: Amos 'n' Andy can now look the Collector of Internal Revenue squarely in the eye and declare that the $2,000,000 is subject to a capital gains tax (25%) instead of income...
...London, where a busy summer had already spawned half a dozen hits, the new season began briskly with what looked like another success by prolific Terence Rattigan (The Winslow Boy, O Mistress Mine). Called Playbill, it was a program of two one-acters: The Browning Version, a study of an embittered schoolmaster, and A Harlequinade, which pokes fun at highbrow theater. Rattigan, whose annual royalties pile up to about $100,000, also has a new drama about Alexander the Great scheduled for a winter opening, and is working on a comedy...