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Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack, he said, had taken a $2,650 payoff for casting the deciding vote in favor of granting a lucrative Miami television channel to a subsidiary of National Airlines. The money, Schwartz said, came from well-to-do Miami Lawyer Thurman A. Whiteside, who had a reputation as, "to use the colloquial term, 'a fixer.' " Added Schwartz: "Mr. Whiteside himself has been, and I believe still is, subject to disbarment proceedings." Schwartz's catalogue of evidence included a wire recording secretly made at his direction by his aide, Herbert Wachtell, while questioning...
...economy needs, Reuther pointed to a fat package of contract demands that he intends to put before the auto companies in April (TIME, Feb. 3). His plan to cut auto workers in on automakers' profits* (they would also be guaranteed an annual 3.9% raise), said Reuther, would channel "high-velocity dollars" to consumers-who would spend them fast-instead of to stockholders, who would salt them away. As Reuther sees it, in short, what's good for General Motors auto workers is good for the country...
...last six months of 1957, attendance fell as much as 17.5% below 1956 figures. Box-office business will probably get worse if post-1948 films are peddled to television in the same volume as their predecessors. Some 300 post-1948 movies have already been sold down the channel, including such quality films as High Noon. This trend, warned the report, could be "a death blow to theaters and production...
...oldest drama series finally got around to dramatizing it. Kraft called the play The Battle for Wednesday Night. But Scriptwriter Robert Van Scoyk, who used to write for Jackie Gleason, clearly fixed his view on Sunday night and its two warring clans, the Sullivans and the Aliens. On either channel the image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided to fight him with a popular young singer (Earl Holliman). The singer had to survive Madison Avenue metaphors ("Throw...
...second and third talks in the series will be given on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and they will all be carried on WGBH-TV (channel 2) and rebroadcast later by WGBH-FM. Tonight, Conant's topic will be "Free Germany Reviews Its Past...