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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday show, Time: Present -Chet Huntley Reporting, in which he explores predominantly heavy subjects: integration, world trade, public education. A graduate of Western broadcasting (Seattle, Los Angeles), he was brought East by NBC in 1956 to do the Sunday show, is one of TV's best-paid newsmen (total annual income...
...does either know what the other will say; their story assignments must be written-and in some cases reported and filmed-in the hours just before show time. The news budget is restricted to five or six items, and which man takes the lead depends entirely on whether the best story is in Huntley's territory or Brinkley's. What they turn out ranks high not only with Nielsen but also with official Washington. Asked by a survey agency last August to name their favorite news program, members of Congress gave Huntley-Brinkley Report top rank...
There were other reasons for the smiles in Washington. The new bonds promptly sold at a premium on a when-issued basis. This reduced their yield to buyers to 4.79%, but it also stirred interest in other Government bonds, perked up the market to the best level in weeks. Though nearly $9 billion of Treasury securities fall due Nov. 15 and must be refinanced, they continued strong on the hunch that if the Government comes back with another 5% issue next month, the holders of these notes would receive valuable subscription rights...
JOHN ANDREW BARR, 51, handsome Hoosier, is the best proof in U.S. business that ugly ducklings do indeed turn into swans. As a vice president, secretary and legal counsel for Montgomery Ward & Co. under depression-minded, penny-pinching Chairman Sewell Avery, Barr was as undistinguished as a duckling; his chief claim to fame was that he showed a rare ability to survive the purges and resignations that cost Ward's five presidents and 30 vice presidents in 23 years. Barr managed to stay by avoiding open conflict with Avery, kept quiet about things that he knew he could...
...that eventually voided President Roosevelt's seizure of Ward's during a 1944 labor dispute and masterminding the successful proxy battle against Raider Louis Wolfson in 1955. Barr still admires his old boss, refuses to criticize him. Says he: "He was one of the nation's best merchandisers. He grew old, that...