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...blame for the flop of the program, Senator Clyde Martin Reed, chairman of the Senate's transportation subcommittee, called car builders and railmen to Washington this week. But an investigation would hardly stretch the bottleneck fast enough. And a hard winter would squeeze down and close many a plant. The likeliest solution was Government allocation of steel. Though they dread the effect allocation would have on their markets, many steelmakers, who need cars as badly as anyone to haul coal and ore, privately thought that allocation was the only...
Broadway Producer Jed Harris (Broadway, Coquette, Our Town) was not in the mood for love. "There's been a decline in the quality of writing," he told Columnist Ward Morehouse. "What do you expect, when Moss Hart can make $280,000 from the movies on a flop?" Otherwise: "Clifford Odets isn't writing because he can't. George Kaufman isn't getting any younger. ... Philip Barry never wrote anything that would draw me into a theater. The best thing Maxwell Anderson ever wrote was Ingrid Bergman." Swore Play-Producer Harris: "I hope I never have...
...Mexico-born Ralph Kiner, 24, had done for the seventh-place Pittsburgh Pirates what Hank Greenberg was hired-at a reported salary of nearly $100,000-to do. At 36, and in his first season with the Pirates, Hank was pretty much of a flop, even though Pittsburgh's left-field fence had been brought in closer to help him. But Greenberg bunked with young Kiner on road trips, talked while his protégé listened, practiced with him. On Hank's advice, Kiner stood closer to the plate, spread his feet a little more, learned...
...Hollywood last week, the President's daughter also met the press. Her omnipresent teacher, Mrs. Margaret Strickler, a bosomy, flop-hatted kind of Madame Svengali, was hovering near by. When reporters asked Margaret about one selection on her program, La Fauvette avec ses Petits from Grétry's Zémire et Azor, Mrs. Strickler muscled in: "Galli-Curci was the only other one I've heard sing it. I might say that her voice was very similar, too." Margaret laughed it off: "That will be enough of that...
Lilienthal's picture was timely (TIME, Aug. 4), but your attempt to gild this pink lily was a flop. "He brought power to 700,000 users, through 140 cooperatives." Stalin approves the process used, and also believes in "strong government," like Lilienthal. This man is a bad mistake−he doesn't stand for sound economics, free enterprise or American fundamentals. . . . This man will hurry us down the same socialistic path England is descending...