Super Bowl Ads Rated by TV Test Panel
A TV test panel rates this year’s 30 second commercial spots after yesterday’s Super Bowl. The report highlights which ads delivered value for the big spend and which ones underperformed. Results, conclusions, and the best surprises are summarized for viewers.
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Cay
ER Stars Forced Off Air for Five Weeks in March
NBC will skip new ER episodes for five weeks starting March 6 to clear air for the police drama Prince Street. The ER cast and NYPD Blue and Homicide Life on the Street will resume new episodes in the spring for the May sweeps period.
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NBC
Anthony Edwards
Prince Street
Gadgets in the kitchen crowd shelves and drawers
A food feature chronicles common kitchen gadgets from cheap plastic aids to costly appliances. Experts like Norm Faiola and Rebecca Faraggio-Secrets celebrate usefulness while noting many items are optional, with personal favorites ranging from butter curlers to cherry pitters.
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Norm Faiola
Syracuse University
Nutrition and Food Service Management
Joan Dobricki
Syracuse
Faiola
Rebecca Faraggio
Secrets
Bras From flatteners to Wonderbras
The second in a two part excerpt from A History of the Breast describes the first patent U S brassiere by Mary Phelps Jacobs in 1914 and how the rise of rayon and bandeau designs in the 1920s reshaped undergarments. Ida Rosenthal and Enid Bissett popularized natural silhouettes with early patents and a surge of separate brassieres by 1925.
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Knopf
Marilyn Yalom
U.S
New York
Mary Phelps Jacobs
Caresse Crosby
Warner Brothers Curset Company
Vogue Magazine
Ida Rosenthal
Enid Bissett
Ida
William Rosenthal
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David Lassman
New York Times
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