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...Journal contest. Another was Robert Alvich, 53, a hotel desk clerk. A chronic puzzle contestant. Alvich bit on an anonymous telephone caller's proposal to make him a cinch winner. Following orders, Alvich phoned Detroit, where another anonymous voice gave him the answer to the Journal's current Cashword Puzzle. Sure enough, Alvich won $2,950 and. still following instructions, wired $2,000 to one "Harry Valk'' in Detroit. Meantime, a Portland disk jockey. Fitzgerald ("Eager") Beaver, admitted that he had been similarly set up to win $1,700 from the Oregonian, had also sent...
Behrman's other stage vehicles include Jacobowsky and the Colonel, No Time for Comedy, and the current Cold Wind and the Warm. When the motion picture version of Jacobowsky appeared last year, one New York critic commented that Nazism and anti-Semitism were not fit subjects for a humorous approach. "He was dead wrong," Behrman says, pointing out that Franz Werfel had told him the true story from which the play was taken at Max Reinhardt's Hollywood home. "Also present was the composer Arnold Schonberg; they were all refugees who had lost everything to the Nazis, but they...
...armed forces learned the lesson of Vanguard I fiasco not wisely but too well. Having been cautioned, after that widely publicized failure, that it should not have trumpeted so loudly before the firings, the Air Force veiled its two subsequent firings (the Atlas launched in December and the current Discoverer) in secrecy until their success was announced...
...desperate need for national union regulation is almost universally accepted; the fate of current legislation may well determine the government's ability to do anything to control the one and a half million man Teamsters--far more important, it may be the last chance to do something about corruption within organized labor before the conservative advocates of strong legislation convince the nation that what is needed is vigorous legislation to control the entire labor movement. Whether is follows the lead of the administration or that of Senator Kennedy, labor faces more than a challenge: it has a chance to avert...
With these innovations Arlington Books "will be able to resist the current trend of printing bad books on the theory that this is the only way one can afford publishing good ones," Bledsoe asserted. Darwin, Wallace by Bert J. Loewenberg was the first book released by the company, and two others will be published next week...