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When Hoffman Radio Corp.'s energetic President H. Leslie Hoffman announced a fortnight ago that he had bought the Don Lee radio network (TIME, Oct. 23), he was sure he had sewed up the biggest broadcasting deal of the year. Hoffman's offer had been accepted by the public administrator of Los Angeles County, who was disposing of the West Coast's biggest chain for the, heirs of Don Lee. Hoffman had bid $11.2 million; the only other bidder, an Akron bank representing the General Tire & Rubber Co.'s salaried employees pension fund, had offered only...
...Would be taken over by the Communists within a fortnight...
Under MacArthur, few commanders played a more important role than "Ned" Almond in saving Korea from Red aggression. The war was hardly a fortnight old and the U.N. forces were still beating a dismal retreat, when the Chief of Staff was told to start thinking of an end run around the enemy's line. Inchon was picked as the place for an amphibious assault, despite its treacherous tide and seawall. "Who's going to command the landing force?" asked the Chief of Staff. "You are," said MacArthur...
What happens in a big U.S. city when all daily newspapers stop publishing? Last week Pittsburgh was finding out. When the Mailers' Union went on strike a fortnight ago-and the Drivers' Union refused to load papers - Pittsburgh's Scripps-Howard's Press, Hearst's Sun-Telegraph, William Block's Post-Gazette were forced to close...
...year to huff himself into a German-style Heldentenor, and he was all set to sing his first Tristan, with Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde. San Franciscans (and Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sorely needs a successor to Lauritz Melchior) were all set to hear him. But a fortnight ago, with debut day almost at hand, Tenor Vinay was bogged down in Chile. A stubborn Santiago impresario refused to let him leave the country until he fulfilled a delayed engagement. Last week, finally freed by persuasion and compromise, Vinay flew to San Francisco, took his big step, was cheered...