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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stockholm was his 14-year-old daughter Linda, who had been traveling with Morgan's exwife, Jane Cianfarra, and her husband. New York Times Correspondent Camille Cianfarra. Morgan rushed to a rescue ship on a Coast Guard cutter, then back to Manhattan for his evening newscast. Scriptless, he ad-libbed an eloquent report of the tragedy from the viewpoint of an anonymous "person who had relatives aboard." Next day, when Linda proved incredibly to have been hurled to safety in the Stockholm's jagged prow by the impact of the crash, Morgan shed his reporter's anonymity...
...Ad-Lib Writers. In that tradition, producers try to leave so little to chance that TV has spawned a group of craftsmen who call themselves "audience participation comedy writers.'' Not only do they interview prospective participants and write the ad-lib banter between contestants and M.C.s on such shows as Two for the Money and Edgar Bergen's recently ended Do You Trust Your Wife?, but their lines are carefully rehearsed...
...sellers of soap. In 1950, for example, the Monsanto Chemical Company offered the Glee Club $300 to sing on one of a series of shows featuring New England singing groups. The Glee Club could not accept the offer, because it was felt that $300 was an insulting bid from ad men who would make $30,000 from the show...
...which high-tariff advocates will go to protect home industry were demonstrated last week in a case involving imported violins. The Tariff Commission sent President Eisenhower a recommendation to treble the tariff on instruments valued by the foreign manufacturer at $25 or less. The proposed new rate: 52 ½ % ad valorem and $1.87 ½ each v. the current 17 ½ % plus 62 ½ each. Fiddle-faddle, said the President, vetoing the boost. He noted that violins and violas of this type are made by only one U.S. manufacturer, Jackson-Guldan of Columbus, Ohio, which employs 30 production workers. To protect...
...convention was less a chance to study new developments than an opportunity to get new jobs. For their part, engineering firms, hard-pressed by a steadily increasing shortage of engineers (TIME, May 30), used the convention as a rich hunting ground for talent. Page after page of display ad's in Manhattan newspapers and trade journals invited engineers to investigate a wide variety of engineering jobs offering tempting salaries up to $15,000. Though open recruiting was forbidden at the convention, several companies complained that engineers were being "pirated" right at the convention's exhibit booths. But most...