Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story on expansion plans for a local Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant-without mentioning that 2,600 of its 3,600 employees have been laid off." The only recent Press-Scimitar story about possible Firestone expansion in Memphis was printed in the Press-Scimitar on Nov. 19, 1957. Raymond C. Firestone, company president, on a visit to Memphis, was asked by a Press-Scimitar reporter if the company planned any expansion in Memphis in 1958. He replied:'"We have expanded the Memphis plant every year in the 20 years we've been in Memphis." His statement was printed...
...launching pad at Cape Canaveral one afternoon last week thundered an Army Jupiter-C rocket. Seven minutes later, the rocket popped a satellite into orbit. What was even more remarkable than this space-age achievement was the fact that the world accepted the news of a third U.S. orbiting moon with a great deal less flutter than that accorded the winners of Hollywood's Academy Awards (see CINEMA...
...first-class talent most clubs would hock their silverware to buy. Its big neon bill of fare regularly blazons such names as Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle, Tony Bennett. Last week, even with an ailing (laryngitis) Judy Garland as its husk-voiced headliner. the T. & C. was packing upwards of 2,000 patrons a show (including those in the bar and private dining room) under its high, star-spattered ceiling...
Boys with Their Sisters. The T. & C., which has made it big just when most large nightclubs are not able to make it at all, has the air of a neighborhood bar trying to masquerade as the Hollywood Bowl, and half-succeeding. The cavernous, turquoise-walled main room rises in tiers from an elevated stage that could double as a soccer field. The reservation crowd ("We like nobody off the street") comes mostly from Brooklyn; whole families take tables together, and women's clubs sit in solid platoons. Girls dance with one another, little boys with their sisters...
Married. Frances Farmer, 43, onetime topnotch Hollywood leading lady (Come and Get It] who was committed to a mental hospital in 1943, is now making a comeback on TV; and Leland C. Mikesell, 53, West Coast radio-TV consultant; she for the third time, he for the first; in Las Vegas...