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...occasion was a $100-a-plate benefit dinner for the Salvation Army. As a big contributor, Frankie had been appointed one of 123 vice chairmen of the Army's current fund-raising drive. The invitations were clearly inscribed "sponsored by Frank Costello," and Frankie hoped people would come. They...
Exit Into Sunset. Yenan's most remarkable form of entertainment was the "living newspaper" in which amateur mimes enacted current events. Sample: General Eisenhower invading Normandy atop a human landing barge (see cut). Sugar-coated propaganda also pervaded the Saturday night dances regularly held in a Yenan apple orchard at which Mao appeared in simple peasant dress to dance with his wife, Mme. Chu Teh, Mme. Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock...
Writers who grind out the millions of words for insatiable TV took nervous note of some of the problems, in the current Authors League Bulletin. Sample findings of eight experts and TV pioneers...
...Armco Steel, with a 28% increase in its profit to $32 million, boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half the current market price of its stock. Even tiny Barium Steel, which had never paid a dividend, declared one of 10% in stock...
Such decentralization, Perkins said, would not only ease the jam in city residential areas but would succeed in making the current building program more than just a restoration of pre-war conditions in housing...