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Died. Paul Beisman, 60, longtime manager of St. Louis' American Theater (36 years) and outdoor Municipal Opera (28 years), former president of the Legitimate Independent Theaters of North America; of cancer; in St. Louis. Beisman ran the huge, concrete "Muny" Opera like a ballpark, became an expert on what Variety calls the ozoning end of show business. As manager of the American Theater, Beisman was widely recognized for keeping non-Broadway U.S. theater alive...
RECORD FLIGHT across U.S. was set in trial run by American Airlines' first Boeing 707 jetliner in preparation for regular runs which begin in January. Los Angeles-New York time: 4 hrs. 43 min. At average 630 m.p.h., jet shaved the previously prevailing commercial piston-plane time by three hours...
...were off to $15.2 million from $20.1 million; Inland Steel's dropped to $12.1 million from $13.4 million; RCA's net fell to $6.3 million from $8.0 million; Reynolds Metals' to $8.9 million from $9.3 million; National Distillers' to $5.1 million from $6.0 million; American Cyanamid's to $8,687,983 from...
...note to Los Alamos suggesting how to build an H-bomb.) What he could not learn from encyclopedias Behlen picked up by sending postcards to big manufacturers to learn their methods-and most cooperated. Says he: "I never could have stayed in business without Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers...
Studebaker-Packard's new small car, the Lark, also made pricing news. Its price was set lower than the list prices of the Big Three and in some cases below American Motors' hot-selling Rambler. The Lark begins at $1,756 for a two-door, six-cylinder model, ranges to $2,362 for an eight-cylinder station wagon. Its four-door six carries a list price of $1,821 v. $1,918 for the cheapest four-door Rambler, but most of its two-door models run slightly above Rambler's two-door Rambler American series...