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Chairman Summerfield, 53, is a wealthy Flint, Mich. Chevrolet dealer, who entered politics in the early '40s. In 1948 Summerfield led a movement to get the Republican nomination for Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg. This year Summerfield kept his important Michigan delegation on the fence right up to convention time, finally went (35-11) for Ike on the first ballot...
...started parceling out licenses for new TV stations last week, only a few days after it began going through its backlog of more than 500 applications (TIME, July 14). Nine TV-less cities got the go-ahead: Portland, Ore., New Bedford and Springfield-Holyoke, Mass., Youngstown, Ohio, Flint, Mich., Bridgeport and New Britain, Conn., York, Pa. and Denver. But Denver is still in for a wrangle. The FCC has ordered hearings for the two rivals who want channel 4-station KMYR, and the new Metropolitan Television Co., of which Bob Hope is a major stockholder...
...steel strike went into its fifth week, the whole steel-based economy of the U.S. began to slow down. The auto industry had already laid off 91,200 of its 1,200,000 workers. In Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo and Atlanta, auto assembly plants began closing down. In Flint, Mich., the two Chevrolet plants laid off 10,000 men, AC Spark Plug 8,000, Buick 200. In the whole U.S., besides the 475,00 striking steelworkers, an estimated 250,000 others were out of work because of the strike, and other thousands soon would be. The strike's cost...
...uncommitted are embroiled in a hot fight centering on Governor John Fine (see below). Michigan's 26 uncommitted are waiting with much more patience and internal harmony. Quietly, the Michigan delegates may have made the political news of the week when they met Sunday afternoon at Flint's Durant Hotel. They chose Detroit's George A. Shaffer, a resolutely uncommitted delegate (TIME, June 23), for their delegation's member on the convention credentials committee...
...stainless steel "Diamondware" table service. Last year his Ekco Products Co. sold 375,000 egg beaters, 10½ million kitchen knives, 2,500,000 rubber-ended bottle stoppers, 1.5 million pots & pans and 12 million can openers. Disguised under such brand names as A. & J., Flint and Ovenex, Ekco Products brought in a 1951 gross of $35 million...