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Viewers who saw last week's production of Town could see little similarity between its story and the celebrated murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago Negro beaten and shot to death in Mississippi after he unwarily whistled at a white storekeeper's wife (TIME, Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, 1955). Yet Town began, through CBS's courageous suggestion to Serling, as a thinly veiled dramatization of the Till case. A précis of Serling's first effort was rejected by all but one of the sponsors; they would not lend their brand...
...push at the Post† comes from plump, stogie-chomping Executive Editor (and Board Member) Arthur Emmett Laro, 46, whose first move on taking over as managing editor in 1947 was to fire twelve staffers. He got a free hand from his publishers, Texas' onetime (1917-20) Governor William P. Hobby and his wife, Oveta Gulp, wartime WAC commander and the nation's first (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary. In ten years Laro has quadrupled his editorial staff (to 110) and kept Houston humming with such solidly documented exposés as hawk-faced City Editor...
Only Ed Wadsworth, at number six, had an easy time of it, winning 3 to 0 from John Beckforth. Each of the other matches went to the fourth set, as Charlie Hamm, at number two, Gerry Emmett at number three, and seventh and eight men, Fred Vinton and John Davis all scored 3 to 1 wins...
...Died. Emmett Jay Scott, 84, distinguished Negro leader, longtime (18 years) secretary to Booker T. Washington, onetime (during World War I) special assistant to Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, secretary-treasurer of Howard University (1919-34), author of The American Negro in the World War (1919), coauthor (with Washington) of Tuskegee and Its People; in Washington...
...Steel Hour: Actor-Author Robert Emmett's You Can't Win lost its silly head completely but managed to keep its heart in the right place and a tickly hand on the viewer's funnybone. As he dum-tada-ta-ed the habanera from Carmen ("Greasy cup and dirty plate, I'll wash you up immaculate, da ta") in a café kitchen, Dishwasher Bert Lahr learned, that he had won an Irish Sweepstakes fortune. At last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most...