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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance to reciprocate. ¶ cleanup of Communist infiltration in the Italian theater and cinema. A recent press-agency survey showed that of the country's 14 leading film producers, four were Communists and four more fellow travelers. As of now, the Italian movie industry is a heavy contributor to the Togliatti treasury...
...this vast and uncritical acceptance. NBC, which he now hates as the captive Grecian maiden hated the mustachioed Turk, refuses to pay more than a niggling $28,000 a program, although the network extracts a total of $3,000,000 annually from the show's sponsors (biggest contributor: Chesterfield). A few months ago, however, Webb finally found a way out of this financial dilemma; to the Music Corp. of America last year he sold the rights to 100 completed Dragnets and to 95 more which will be filmed in the future. The price: approximately $5,000,000. Webb gets...
When four stanzas of rough-hewn verse by Reader Lee James Burt first appeared in the column of Chicago Tribune Sports Editor Arch Ward, they caused no comment. But last week the twelve-year-old verses by the forgotten contributor to "In the Wake of the News" rated a whole column in the Trib's news section, and stories in the opposition papers to boot...
...least late 1934 or early 1935 to at least some time in 1936" Burck was a member of the Communist Party. Technically, the Government had a case. Born in Poland, Cartoonist Burck (original name: Yakko Bochkowski) came to the U.S. at ten. During the Depression, he was a frequent contributor to Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, and one day in 1934 he took a party card from a persistent editor in the Worker's office to "keep him quiet." In 1935 he went to Moscow to sell a set of murals. But when he refused to revise...
...Ambassador to Portugal, succeeding Careerman Cavendish Cannon: Colonel M. (for Meyer) Robert Guggenheim, 68, head of the copper-rich Guggenheim clan. A heavy contributor to the Eisenhower campaign, Bob Guggenheim is a noted Washington partygiver whose invitations are valued for the lavishness of the entertainment. His Rock Creek Park mansion has its own organ, swimming pool and bowling alley. A reserve colonel, he rose from private to major in World War I, was kept out of No. II by a heart murmur. He likes to sport the ribbons of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart in the lapel...