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Last week General Templer decided that the war was going well enough for him to cancel all standing information rewards. The decision, explained the government, was influenced by "a desire to return to normal." There is still a chance to earn some $80,000 by capturing No. 1 Malayan Communist Leader Chin Peng before the March 1 deadline; after that an informer will have to consider duty its own reward...
...doing so ... The incident you referred to in your letter is the booking of Limelight by the RKO Theaters Corp. This is a separate corporation . . . Nevertheless ... I have been making a most concerted effort to persuade the management of the theater corporation to take the necessary legal measures to cancel all bookings of Limelight...
...press gave Page One treatment to an announcement about itself. For weeks, capital reporters have been telling each other that Ike was going to cancel out the give & take press conferences (and some of Ike's advisers thought he should). Last week, as his first official act, Press Secretary Jim Hagerty reassured the newsmen. The President not only will stick to the old schedule of press conferences but also is trying to work out some way to talk to the people via television, perhaps once a month...
...Tony kept running into trouble. He drew a $100 fine for cussing at fans; he had a spill that forced him to cancel his mounts for a week. Even after Tony began to draw in sight of the record, Jockey Culmone flatly predicted: "He'll never make it. The pressure will get him." Then Tony got another crusher: a ten-day suspension for twice lugging into a horse in a tight race. When the suspension was lifted the day before Christmas, he faced a seemingly impossible task: 19 winners in eight days...
Rain Check. In Bloomington, Ind., University of Indiana students scheduled a giant outdoor rain dance to seek relief for drought-parched crops, had to cancel the show because of a downpour...