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...appointees to the expanded National Labor Relations Board, they grumbled, had loaded the whole board in labor's favor. But the choice Harry Truman made last week to head the autonomous Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was one that both business and labor could applaud. The man was Canadian-born Cyrus S. Ching, a towering (6 ft. 7 in.) pipe-smoking oldster (71) with 28 years of experience in labor relations...
...Canadian-born Fred Pearson, left wing on the second line, is the team's top goal producer with 18. It was the third line combination of Perry Sturgis, Dick Manville, and Bill Howe that provided the fifth and sixth official goals against the Indians...
...swings back & forth between a pearly-monotone heaven and a dazzling, Technicolored earth. But it bites off too big a hunk and insists on chewing it all. In a clumsy flirtation with the U.S. box office, its makers threw in some boring heavenly discourses on Anglo-American relations (with Canadian-born Raymond Massey as the U.S. spokesman) and some trite philosophizing on everything from the hereafter to the British Empire. These "intellectual" flourishes finally grind even the inoffensive little love story to movie mush...
...scandal-lovers in sight. To find 5,000,000 more subscribers, it intends to add more news of politics and world affairs, fields where its coverage is now good but short. Already it has dipped a bashful toe into Conservative politics. Shy, wealthy Philip Gordon Dunn, 41, its Canadian-born chairman and a major shareholder, would probably go Tory all the way if he were not afraid of offending his Socialist readers...
Last week, NBC's Contented Hour, one of radio's oldest and best-known, began its 15th year. But it was almost a new show. Gone were the moo and the bell, the bleating ballad. Only familiar prop was Canadian-born, 36-year-old Conductor Percy Faith. Regarded as one of radio's top arrangers, he is equally deft with light classics and new jazz. His formula for a new contentment: more Kostelanetz-like arrangements of Gershwin and Rodgers, fewer old soothers like Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes...