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Just in time to brighten the holiday season, Canadian servicemen got their first pay raise in two years, an average 9% boost that will make Canada's lowliest enlisted men and its top brass the highest-priced fighting men of their rank in the world. Base pay for the Canadian recruit will jump from $87 to $92 a month. The U.S. buck private draws only...
...Washington column), totted up the results to date, found ABC's television business (in sponsor billings) to be 51% better than a year ago, and its radio business 15% up over 1952. "Star power" did the trick, Kintner says. Early in its new life, the network decided to brighten up its TV by going out for big entertainers. Vice President Robert M. Weitman, a Broadway-wise showman who turned Manhattan's Paramount Theater into a mint by combining its first-run movies with name bands and singers, was called in as chief talent scout. Showman Weitman brought home...
...tired of La Boca's all-pervading drabness, hired a crew of house painters to brighten the Boquenses' homes. Quinquela and his men started to paint the town red-and also blue, green, yellow and orange. When La Boca merrily proclaimed itself an independent republic some years ago, Quinquela took the title of its "Rearest Admiral." He still occasionally wears a blue admiral's uniform with gold screws for buttons, signifying his allegiance to the Order of the Screw which he founded (current membership: 150). Explains Quinquela: "I long ago discovered that anyone worth a damn, anyone...
...cribs that fill the wood-floored ward . . . Now, with enough cards to string from one end of the room to the other, we have some added color and interest for our patients recovering from this prevalent disease. They may not get you too many subscriptions, but they sure brighten up the place...
Major General William F. Dean, former 24th Infantry Division commander, who got the Medal of Honor in absentia after his capture outside Taejon in 1950, will get some news from Washington to brighten his grey life in prison camp: President Eisenhower nominated Dean (a Regular Army brigadier general with a temporary two-star rank) for permanent major general...