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...Money, an MBS giveaway show (grand prize: up to $7,000 cash and a trip-for two-anywhere in the world), will be dropped from the network this week. Folksy Ed Kobak claimed that he had had misgivings when the show first went on the air 13 weeks ago. "We never did like the idea of a giveaway show," he explained, "but we're like sheep." He added: "Down in our hearts our conscience bothered us." He was further influenced by the new code of the National Association of Broadcasters which contains the mild stricture that "any broadcast designed...
...first took over the Times-Herald column, "These Charming People," when Columnist Igor ("Ghighi") Cassini, her first husband, went off to war. She kept it when Cassini became the Journal-American's "Cholly Knickerbocker" three years ago. (Cholly waited until last week to mention Bootsie's new name. And Bootsie, say friends, is miffed because Ghighi remarried before she did.) When she tried to syndicate the column, her boss, the late Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, said no. But now the lid was off: Washington newsmen expected Bootsie to be syndicated throughout the Hearst chain. And fellow gossip Danton...
...Martinet. Manager Billy Southworth had come a long way-up, down and up-since he was a Braves outfielder 27 years ago. He had been a Giant under John McGraw, then one of the swaggering St. Louis Cardinals when they won the 1926 World Series. Three years later, Billy the Kid became manager of the Cards-and promptly got his nickname changed to Billy the Heel. The bristling "boy martinet" forbade his old buddies to drive their own cars, clocked them in at night, was fired in midseason when morale and the Cards hit the skids...
...Bums had lost eight of the last ten, and dropped from first to third place. Besides, Mrs. Barney had got a baby-sitter and had come to watch, and Rex owed her a no-hitter (he had promised it after he pitched a one-hitter, nearly a month ago). If only the rain would stop . . . A Polo Grounds clubhouse boy handed Barney a hot dog; against his better judgment, he munched...
...easy credit for housing last spring, builders gloomed that it would take the steam out of the housing boom. They were wrong. Last week, the Department of Commerce reported that new construction had hit an alltime high of nearly $1.8 billion in August, 31% higher than a year ago...