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...tonight's debate, the Gardner Club will act as counsel for the defendant in the case of Local No. 861 v. John B. Dumont, a test case involving the constitutionality of a provision in the Taft-Hartley Act barring Union expenditures for political purposes...
...would permit. Last week KTLA, the big Paramount-owned station in Los Angeles, had one of the fullest logbooks of any television studio in the U.S. (35 hours a week). Another Paramount production is Chicago's WBKB, and the company has a big (29%) interest in DuMont, one of television's Big Three networks...
...Santos Dumont Airport one morning last week, a hearty, smiling man with a grey mane and snapping eyes stepped out of his airplane and into the warmest welcome that a grateful nation could give a favorite son. Bands tooted, crowds cheered, and friends and relatives rushed forward to be crushed in his warm abraco (hug). Oswaldo Aranha, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, was back home...
...that, Jews had blessed him as he left New York, and there were more of them at Santos Dumont. To the Jews and to his peace-loving Brazilian countrymen, he had a word of hope: "The wish to use words [in the U.N.] springs from the wish not to use arms." He had also a sober warning: "The world is undoubtedly divided into two blocs, the democratic and the Soviet. The work of all democrats and liberals must be devoted to attract back to liberty and democracy those who have renounced...
Next season, home games of New York's three big-league baseball teams will be televised. The Dodgers granted television rights to CBS last month. Last week the Yankees signed with DuMont Television, the Giants with NBC. Televisers were paying "a nice figure" for their privileges, and rates would jump if sponsors were found. Would park attendance slump? Yankee Skipper Larry MacPhail thought not. "We'll gain two fans for every one we lose," said he. He might not be far wrong. There are only 7,000 television receivers in the New York area...