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...television time, while the experimenters, the educators and the innovators have to pick at the spare and bony hours when nobody is looking, or everybody is dozing from too much Sunday dinner. Last week the salesmen risked a little experimenting themselves and alloted one of TV's choicest hours to a program devoted to science and scientists. It was a pleasant and nourishing dish. With CBS's Our Mr. Sun, the first of a seven-part, hourlong Bell Telephone series, TV proved that though there is nothing new under the sun, there is a good deal about...
...Royal Dutch-Shell got 59,300 acres of lake concessions, plus 98,800 acres of exploration concessions. The company paid as much as $2,500 an acre for the choicest lake-bottom. Total cost: $65 million...
Merchants he had neglected in town hurried to the chateau to display their choicest wares. The Count Foucou de Gines (rhymes roughly with jeans) picked over their offerings judiciously, settled on 20 jade statuettes, a few more paintings, some luxury editions of books. By the time he was through, the count had written checks for $71,000 worth of bric-a-brac. The count's secretary, taking advantage of an old French custom, scurried around to each merchant and demanded 10% commission on everything his master had bought. He collected, in cash, some 2,000,000 francs...
Some of the choicest prestige plums in the contemporary architectural world are handed out by the U.S. Department of State for its ten-year, $200 million, overseas embassy and consulate-building program. The program stipulates that the new buildings must be 1) functional, 2) sympathetic to surrounding architecture, and 3) in harmony with the cultures and traditions of the countries in which they are built. To help architects get the feel of their assignment, the Government foots the bill for an on-the-spot inspection. Administered by an advisory group of leading architects and diplomats, the program has attracted...
After the huzzas and groans of the Democratic Convention in Chicago (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) died away, there was almost unanimous agreement that the Democrats' choicest doll is Lucille Clement, wife of Tennessee's give-'em-hellfire Governor Frank G. Clement, the convention's bombastic keynoter. Mother of three boys, Lucille, 36, whose figure is one of modern polities' most attractive gerrymanders, took time out to model some cute creations for a Hearst lensman...