BBC Rejects Adams Chronicles Sale Despite Series Prestige
New York AP reports BBC passed on buying The Adams Chronicles despite its $6.7 million budget. WNET executive Robert Kotlowitz cites BBC budget problems, union issues, and import quota limits as key reasons. He notes no sale agreement existed and BBC offered no price.
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WNET
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Kotlowitz
Britain
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National Endowment For the Humanities
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1876 Stereopticons and Lanterns Advertised by Anthony Co
GOLIAD coroner's inquest verdict finds W Killebrough killed by pistols in the hands of Joe Luderbacher Hy Luderbacher and Henry Hoff in the company with about 40 others, to the jurors unknown. The advertisement from E and H T Anthony Co NY lists engravings stereoscopes and lantern goods as a sales catalog reference.
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Goliad
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W. J. Killebrough
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Henry Hoff
Texas Couple Donates Land for New Prison near Hominy
Richard W. Henton and his wife June of Lubbock Texas donated 60 acres north of Hominy to host a $12.8 million prison. Both teachers at Texas Tech, the couple say the project will bring jobs and boost the local economy. The land was bought five years ago from E L Marcum and valued at 725 dollars per acre.
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Henton
Bartlesville
Oklahoma State University
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Whitney Museum gets 250000 grant for living artists
The Whitney Museum of American Art received a $250,000 grant from Frances and Sydney Lewis of Richmond Virginia to purchase works by living American artists.
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Whitney Grant
New York
Whitney Museum of American Art
Frances and
Sydney Lewis
Richmond, Va
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