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...still insist that he did not know Chambers? Would he recognize a man who once spent a week in his house? Hiss at length said that he might have known Chambers after all, but as a free-lance writer-he pulled a notation from his pocket-named "George Crosley." Back in 1934, he now recalled, he had given some help to Crosley. Under questioning he did recall other circumstances of his relationship with Crosley; that he had taken Crosley, his wife and baby into the Hisses' house for a few days; that he sublet his apartment to Crosley...
...made two smart investments-in American Rolling Mill, in which Colonel Procter was interested, and in Crosley Radio Corp., for which he was counsel. The investments, which he cannily sold out before the 1929 crash, became the foundation of a comfortable fortune. He acquired the franchise for a hockey team and formed a syndicate which erected the $3,000,000 Cincinnati Garden (hockey, boxing, wrestling and conventions). A Cincinnati sport and amusement promoter, Willis Vance, who had dreamed of such an enterprise for a long time, still keeps an architect's drawing of his project hanging in his office...
With well-paced acts, some high-level ad-lib talk and a genial approach, This Is Broadway last week was one of the first of the summer TV sustaining shows to nab a fall sponsor-AVCO's Crosley Division (radios & TV sets). Though gratified by the windfall, Fadiman (who had been against the serious approach from the beginning) had urged all along that Broadway be changed from an hour-long show to its present 30 minutes. "One thing about this show," he once mused, "it's delightfully improvable...
Although more than 100 manufacturers were making TV sets, 90% of the sales still went to the industry's Big Eight (Admiral, Crosley, Du Mont, Emerson, General Electric, Motorola, Philco and RCA). Last winter both big & small manufacturers were booming confidently ahead in the expectation that 1949 was going to be a 2,500,000-set year. This spring they crashed into a roadblock of buyer resistance. By last week, many of the smaller companies were hanging on by their fingernails...
Factory-priced at $849, the Crosley roadster will deliver anywhere in the U.S. for less than...