Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...runs a 29-minute movie called Help Wanted, made by the big (375,000 members) International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Its purpose: to blast General Electric Co., whose decentralization program (TIME, Jan. 12) has created heavy, if temporary, unemployment in cities where plants were shut down. The film shows troubles in Fort Wayne, Ind., Lynn, Mass. and Bloomfield, N.J. A Presbyterian minister argues: "The profit motive has destroyed the human personality." I.U.E. President James Barron Carey himself pleads for sympathy from G.E. and its shareholders...
Whatever sympathy Jim Carey may get from G.E., he got little from TV stations. Last week, Manhattan's WABC, Providence's WPRO, Baltimore's WMAR, Toledo's WTOL and Dayton's WLW-D, which were supposed to show Help Wanted, canceled the program. Said WABC, warily: "Too controversial...
...program was ambitious and familiar, the only big surprise being a rare performance of the nine bars which were to be the Scherzo of the Schubert Unfinished Symphony. The first two movements were given a measured, careful reading which was typical of the whole performance. The concert opened with Corelli's Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.1, giving the strings a chance to shine, followed by a gracious but strong Beethoven 8th Symphony. The closing number, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture called upon the sonority and balanced ensemble work which is perhaps the orchestra's greatest asset...
Also speaking on the panel are Dean Monro and Dean Brown. The program, open to the public, will begin at eight...
...annual report to the Faculty--to be released today--Wilcox points out that the Advanced Placement program at Harvard has grown from 39 students in 1954 to almost one-third of the present Freshman Class this year. At the same time, the number of secondary schools sending students to the College with some previous college-level training has increased seven-fold...