Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leonard K. Nash '39, associate professor of Chemistry, said he had been asked to be a sponsor, but had declined. "I didn't want to take responsibility for a group whose activities might degenerate into fun and games," he explained...
...same shortage of sponsors for unrehearsed humor also killed the best new comedy show in years. The show: Keep Talking, a zany competition between teams of comic talkers trying to spin out a screwball tale while slipping in a screwball secret phrase that the opposition must spot. Literate and consistently funny, the show was carried by CBS all summer and into the fall without attracting a sponsor. Last week CBS decided that while it still liked Keep Talking, it could not afford to keep paying...
Kathryn Murray has been flaunting her courage on the air since 1950, when husband Arthur put up the money for Party's first half-hour of relentlessly joyous dancing. Although they picked up a few sponsors, the show was gradually dropped to the status of summer replacement-and clobbered Cornball Lawrence Welk when placed opposite him. Thus encouraged, says Kathryn, "we figured that if we were going to take a chance on being criticized, we'd rather do it on a winter show." This year the Murrays finally found a full-time evening sponsor (P. Lorillard...
Under the plan, the Barnard Gilbert & Sullivan Society will sponsor a Harvard production of 'Yeoman of the Guard' at Columbia University in January...
Both Emerson and the other faculty sponsor, Daniel S. Cheever '39, lecturer on Government, withdrew their support recently when it was learned that a "coup," led by Dennis L. White '60, president of the Committee, had changed its name to "The Committee Against Appeasement...