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...Sugar & Caustic. Fifteen years in the industry have honed Bill Cullen to the supersharpness required of a good M.C. His patter is sometimes irrelevant, but it is always fast; his smile gleams as brightly as the lens of his eyeglasses; and, whatever else may happen, he is never speechless. In making his way up to a top network job, 34-year-old Bill Cullen has closely analyzed his profession and decided that there are three kinds of masters of ceremonies: "There's the Drooler, who sugars out 'God bless you and that sort of stuff; there...
...icebox, found the ice trays frozen in from long disuse, began hacking at them with a letter opener. With characteristic single-mindedness, Knowland turned down his aides' suggestion that they get some ice from the Senate restaurant, and ignored Dirksen's pleas to forget it. Fifteen minutes later, Knowland...
...Fifteen months ago, a committee of the Kansas legislature wrote a report charging that Charles Wesley Roberts, chairman of the Republican National Committee, had violated the "spirit" of Kansas' lobbying laws in 1951 (TIME, April 6, 1953). The committee frowned because Roberts, a professional pressagent, took an $11,000 fee in the sale of a hospital to the state, when he was not registered as a lobbyist. Although Roberts held no political job at the time he took the fee, the committee's report forced him to hurry to Dwight Eisenhower and hand in his resignation as Republican...
...sang the children one day last week in the dining hall of Camp Wawbeek. Then chairs scraped and banged as the campers sat down to breakfast. But for these children, sitting down at table was no ordinary matter. Fifteen of them were already seated-in wheelchairs. Others carefully placed their crutches beside them on the floor before they edged onto their chairs...
...comparatively few U.S. citizens are able to afford big, custombuilt yachts. Over the past fifteen years, three of the nation's famed yacht yards - Herreshoff, Lawley's, Robert Jacobs - have shut down. Last week Nevins announced that it, too, will close, a casualty to foreign competition (mostly German and Dutch) and income taxes...