Word: reportable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...First Report, the FCC had given TV manufacturers a month to indicate that they were willing to start making new sets internally adapted so that they could receive CBS colorcasts in black & white. Most of the manufacturers protested that the time was too short for such a radical changeover. But the FCC wouldn't wait. In October, it handed down a final decision in favor of the CBS system...
...Ohio Wesleyan, Stanton vacillated between a pre-med course and a psychology major. When he graduated in 1930, he was offered an advertising job by Philadelphia's N. W. Ayer on the basis of his work on the college yearbook, but before he could report for work, the depression had changed N. W. Ayer's mind. Stanton hurriedly grabbed a job at Ohio State as graduate assistant (salary: $750 a year), married Ruth Stephenson, the girl he'd been going with since he was 14, and for three years worked as a part-time teacher while writing...
...concluded that advertising was more effective when heard than when seen. To bring this finding to the attention of radio broadcasters, he thoughtfully sent a copy of his paper to CBS. Paul Kesten, then CBS vice president in charge of advertising and sales promotion, pounced on Stanton's report as "good red meat for my meat grinder," wired him an offer of a research job at $50 a week...
...week, committee members heard a witness who made them sit up and take notice. He was Congress' own tax expert, Colin Stam, a career man respected alike by Democrats and Republicans. Since Stam testified at a closed session-and kept his mouth shut afterward-there was no detailed report on what he had said. Republicans said he had testified that any excess-profits tax which siphoned off more than $2 billion-exactly half of what President Truman demanded-would be dangerous to business. Democrats denied this; they said Stam had merely pointed out that no excess-profits tax could...
...E.C.A.C. television committee is headed by Ralph Furey, director of athletics at Columbia, and after a preliminary meeting tomorrow, the committee will report to the entire conference on Friday...