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Approximately two thirds of the applicants came from the 29 major Eastern colleges which are members of the School's "Co-operative Plan." Applicants approved by a faculty committee in each college are given priority in admission, and are eligible for special scholarship funds...
Kraft Theater: In an effort to halt the long decline of TV's oldest continuous program, the Kraft Co. last month hired Talent Associates' David Susskind to put on a series of works by topnotch authors (among them: Robert Penn Warren, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), gave the new executive producer full rein. Susskind's first venture was a package of three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, written back in the '30s when the grocer called him Tom and the postman brought him rejection slips. Moony...
Drive-Up Phones. Curb phones which motorists can use without leaving their cars are being installed by the Illinois Bell Telephone Co...
...Phillips Petroleum Co. announced last week that its credit-card holders around the U.S. may buy as much as $150 worth of gas, oil, tires or auto accessories while on their vacation, and take up to six months to pay for their purchases...
...political adviser to the American minister), silk weaving as a local industry had almost died under the onslaught of cheaper and more durable machine-made silk. Today, almost every ship or plane that leaves Thailand carries Thai silk to some 17 countries, and Thompson's Thai Silk Co. alone employs more than 2,000 Thais in the business of silk growing, dyeing, spinning and weaving. From sales of $36,000 in 1948, Thompson boosted his company to $650,000 in sales last year, hopes to do even better this year...