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...Manhattan's Crowell-Collier Building one day last week, employees lingered at their desks long after their day's work was done. Above them, on the 18th floor, the company's board of directors was deciding the fate of the long-ailing fortnightly Collier's and the monthly Woman's Home Companion. As the hours wore on, some staffers broke out bottles to brace them selves for the expected shock. At 10:30 it came. Board Chairman and Editor in Chief Paul Smith announced that Collier's would fold with the Jan. 4 issue...
...jobs immediately were 440 editorial, advertising and business-office staffers, plus 2,300 printing-plant employees, who would be fired this week. Said Collier's Writer Theodore White: "No severance pay, no contractual pensions, no benefits, nothing for anybody. Turned out cold almost on Christmas Eve." Employees-many of whom had worked for the company for more than 20 years-were told that management would review their proposals for severance pay this week. But many feared that the paychecks they had received only a few hours earlier would be their last. Up on a bulletin board went a black...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Scene from Tosca, with Callas, London, Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos; Princeton Triangle Club; Collier's all-America football team; Clark Gable in his TV debut...
...Collier's magazine endorsed Ike (as it did in 1952) and urged its readers to help re-elect...
...women's singles M. Kresing defeated E. Collier, 6-4, 6-1; G. Finkleman defeated M. Cussler, 6-2, 6-3; P. Marx defeated C. Hanschka...