Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats everywhere began to realize that Harry Truman looked like a sure loser in November. The Southern revolt was beginning to look like a rebellion. Even the most liberal of Southern Democrats could no longer buck the bitterness engendered in the South by the President's civil-rights program. Cried Senator Lister Hill of Alabama: "There cannot be Democratic Party unity with President Truman as [our] nominee." Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, no man to quail before Southern bigots, declared that the South should send unpledged delegates to the party's July convention...
Last week, CBS presented him as a radio star in a new program tailored to his short, (5 ft. 2 in.), explosive measure. "Shorty Bell" (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), "a novel written especially for the air," is a continued story about a tough young newspaper circulation hustler who would give his brass knuckles to be a reporter...
...review sections of the Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hiram Haydn, the proud father, who edits the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly, The American Scholar, is going to throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best-selling Green Dolphin Street) a minimum first printing of 615,000 copies...
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...General Education program will get another boost in size next year, as two new courses in the Humanities, four in the Social Sciences, and one in the Natural Sciences will swell the total offerings of the program to 24. President Conant's course on the growth of the experimental sciences, formerly a middle course group open only to Juniors and Seniors, has been shifted to the first group and will be open to Freshmen as a full-year course...