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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newburgh (N.Y.) News, a tough little link in Frank Gannett's newspaper chain, was crusading against vice and gambling in its tough little town (pop. 31,883). When the News documented its case with pictures of locally sold policy tickets, a grand jury summoned News Editor Douglas V. Clarke and Reporter Charles L. Leonard, and wanted to know where the tickets came from...
General Electric's Charles E. Wilson sounded disillusioned. Two months ago he had slashed the prices of about half G.E.'s products (TIME, Jan 12), hoping to start a "chain reaction" of lower prices from industry and head off an inflationary third round of wage increases from labor. What he got, said he, was sneers and new wage demands from the CIO union at G.E. (which G.E. turned down this week), and price hikes by many another company. Said Wilson: "An expensive gesture...
...York, which is full of big private schools like Columbia and N.Y.U. but has no state university, picked a 30-man commission to decide whether it needed one. Last week the commission (chairman: Owen D. Young) recommended that New York instead set up a chain of community colleges, able to handle 30,000 four-year students and 80,000 two-year students by 1960. One advantage in scattering colleges : more students will be able to go to college cheaply, by living at home...
Since the war (in which he served as an Air Forces intelligence captain), he has directed three more-Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday and John Loves Mary-all still running (next chore: directing Rodgers & Hammerstein's Tales of the South Pacific"). Josh deprecates his chain-explosion of successes: "It's hard to break in, but the moment you've had a success everybody wants you. There just aren't enough directors to go around...
Last week Wurdeman & Becket were hard at work on one of the West Coast's fattest architectural prizes: supervising the $31,000,000 building program for the University of California's Los Angeles campus. They had also won a contract to build a chain of four hotels for air travelers across the Pacific, starting with a $1,000,000 hotel at Manila. In all, Walt & Welt last week had contracts for $121,050,000 a backlog few U.S. architects can match. Like all their contracts, they had won last week's new business, as they have been...