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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heroes, Heroines and Mishaps (John Allison; Ficker LP). An unusual collection of U.S. folk songs compiled and performed by Folk Singer John Allison. They range from Gypsy Davy, the sprightly tale of a highborn lady's seduction by a hot guitarist, to the blues-flavored account of the Titanic's sinking, sung by World War I troops crossing the submarine zone...
...Rowse did much more than tally up the number of column inches a story received. He rightly states that length is one of the least important indications of bias. He asked a great many questions, such as: How soon after learning of a story did the paper print an account? Was it on the front page or an inside page? How prominently was it displayed? What was the size and wording of the headline? What was the tone and content of the story as it appeared? How were quotation marks used? Were there also front-page photographs, or cartoons...
...party doctrine. For instead of nationalization Gaitskell now favors a weird plan for the government to get part way into private business. He would have the government acquire shares in some or all of the 512 firms with assets of $7,000,000 or more, which, the report says, account for almost half of all profits earned by British private industry. One way would be for the government to accept stock in these companies, as well as cash, as death duties...
During the next year in prison, Castagna did what he could to make amends, by giving the police a full account of his life in the Mafia. As a result, 19 of his former friends were jailed. Last week, gripping the bars of their cells with white-knuckled hands, they stared in cold hatred at their betrayer as he was led off to tell more of his story in court. "I'm innocent!" screamed one. But Serafino Castagna, on trial for murder, only shrugged. "We were all innocent," he said, "when we sucked our mother's milk...
...tips much more efficient than any now on the market." They 1) "would cost no more to produce," and 2) would give smokers "a significant reduction in cancer risk" (see MEDICINE). Last week, after 18 years, Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn dropped the Digest's advertising account (1956 budget: $1,500,000). Explanation: a "conflict of interest" with one of BBDO's biggest accounts, American Tobacco's Lucky Strike and Hit Parade (1956 budget: $17 million...