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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television, TV fans love vaudeville. TV has brought it all back-from trained dogs to baggy-pants comics. Some of it is as drearily old-hat as the Keith circuit in 1912. But there are glittering exceptions. The hour-long Admiral Broadway Revue (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC-TV & Du Mont) is an example of good vaudeville...
Antitrust. Monopolists were having a rough time. In a Cleveland federal court, Timken Roller Bearing Co. was convicted of conspiring with its British and French affiliates to fix world prices of roller bearings and restrict competition. In Manhattan, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., National Lead Co. and three individuals were fined a total of $43,000 (the maximum) for operating a worldwide cartel in titanium pigments. The companies were already under court order to license titanium production at a reasonable royalty...
Comic Arthur Godfrey has probably caused the biggest uproar among would-be censors by exhibiting a miniature outhouse and describing it as his "office." But such clear-cut cases of bad taste are not the only problem. Raymond Nelson, director of Du Mont's Fashions on Parade, points to color as one difficulty: on the TV screen, dresses of certain shades of red make a girl look undressed. TV avoids negligees, slips, nightgowns and foundation garments-even on dummies. "No matter how you look at it," says Nelson, "a wax dummy on television is a nude woman...
...Paramount's television interests will be split up. The Chicago station (WBKB) will go to the theater company. The movie company will get the Los Angeles station (KTLA), and the controlling interest in Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. With Paramount and RKO (TIME, Nov. 8) out of the fight, the Justice Department hoped that the rest of the "Big Five" (Loew's, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox) would also come to terms...
Christiana is the highest-priced stock on the market. It was quoted last week, over the counter, at $3,005 bid, $3,055 asked. Even at that price, it seemed to be a bargain. By buying a share of Christiana, an investor would indirectly own 19½ shares of Du Pont stock, almost three shares more than if he had spent the same amount of cash to buy Du Pont stock...