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...Buick-Berle Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). Berle tangles with Frank Sinatra...
...Michigan? Among the people who crowded Susie Jessel's treatment room last week was a 53-year-old businessman afflicted with a crippling neuromuscular condition on which he had spent $7,000 in doctors' fees. This patient, who had driven with his wife in their '52 Buick from Santa Monica, Calif., waited all day for the privilege of sitting on Susie's little white stool. After she had passed her hands over his ailing limbs, he said he felt no improvement, but would come back, perhaps stay a week. "After all," he said, "a drowning...
...million fire at General Motors' Livonia transmission plant (TIME, Aug. 24) will cost G.M. 75,000 cars this year, about 2½% of its scheduled 1953 output. Chevrolet cannot make enough Powerglide transmissions to supply Pontiac, and Buick cannot fill all of Cadillac's needs for Dynaflow transmissions. But the fire will not affect G.M.'s 1954 models, which will use transmissions made in rented quarters at Willow...
...Buick and Chevrolet make their own transmissions, Dynaflow and Powerglide...
...relays to cover the dark-to-dawn activities of Actress Diana Barrymore, which reminded oldtimers of the antics of her late father John Barrymore. Because "my husband bores me," Diana began her evening by pub-crawling with an off-duty policeman ("He has a wife, two children and a Buick and must be nameless"). Returning home after midnight, she found her husband, Robert Wilcox, arguing with another rival named John McNeill ("It went on and on and I kept saying 'Shut up, boys, shut up, don't be so Hemingway-feudal' "). After two fights ("I said...