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...tart-tongued Columnist Jack Scott, 43, of the Vancouver (B.C.) Sun, no target was ever more tempting than the Sun itself. He railed against the paper's promotion contests ("cynical seduction of a gullible public"), declared western Canada's biggest (circ. 211,012) and fattest daily was slow of foot and dull of eye. Critic Scott's proposal to brighten the Sun: "More deep reporting and vivid writing, the sort of thing that will grab the reader by the lapels and command his attention." Last September Scott got a chance to put up or shut...
...jumped 7% in a fortnight, hit a 1958 high of 612,715 cars. The rise was in all types of freight, with the most significant gain in wheat shipments. Railroadmen expect that wheat shipments will reach a peak around July 4, stay high as the U.S. harvests its fourth fattest crop in history...
...fattest dividends from rising farm income (TIME, May 12) is going to the makers of farm equipment. Their sales, which turned down long before the recession, are on the rise. International Harvester reported its best April farm equipment sales since 1955; sales for the six months ending April 30 were up 5% over 1957. "The tractor business is ahead of last year for everyone," said Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. The most dramatic comeback has been staged by J. I. Case Co., which lost $2,845,027 in the first six months of fiscal '57. "Now," says...
...sign him, he told Judd to play them against each other, get him a contract "that'll guarantee that if I go in one day and want to play Clair de lune, they'll have to record it." Last week RCA Victor gave him one of the fattest contracts ever offered a young artist, with built-in guarantees for "longterm security." Within hours Van's concert fee jumped from $1,000 to $2,500 plus, shortly became a deal whereby Cliburn gets 60% of the receipts. Dallas outstripped everybody else by booking a concert from which...
...because they kill more people than the others. In order to ensure themselves of this monopoly, they have undertaken the destruction of other parties in the purest totalitarian tradition. In the interior of the country the bands fight at gunpoint over control of the sectors that bring in the fattest dividends in pillage and gunrunning. In the first ten months of 1957 alone, about 600 Algerian Moslems have been killed in France and more than 2.000 wounded, victims of other Algerian Moslems. [In Algeria itself] between Nov. 1, 1954 and Nov. 1, 1957, the rebels murdered 8,429 civilians...