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...market slumped from 20% to 13%, and mergers cut the number of auto companies from eight to six. But by year's end, Chrysler was scoring a comeback with its new models and all auto companies were producing in high gear. And Ford, in a frantic attempt to knock Chevvie out of first place in the industry, turned out a new car every four seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: BUSINESS IN 1954 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...million." The new contract calls for a half-hour filmed show featuring Gleason and his sidekicks. Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph, in The Honeymooners. This is an expanded version of a series of sketches running on his current program, which stars Jackie as Ralph Kramden, a frantic schemer who, unlike Jackie in real life, is always going nowhere in particular in a great hurry. Jackie Gleason Enterprises will retain ownership (for reruns) of the shows and will produce a weekly half-hour musical revue to precede The Honeymooners. To top off his already brimming cup. Gleason also gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jack for Jackie | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Press. The city's dailies have given comparatively little continuing coverage to New York's trouble-ridden police department, traffic problems, housing conditions and soaring crime rate. Some of the papers are making tentative and erratic steps in that direction. But for the most part, in their frantic search for readers, New York's dailies have turned to black type, tricks and entertainment instead of the kind of journalism that once made New York the best newspaper town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble in New York | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...infirmity. It comes out three times a day on mimeographed sheets--to the sports departments of every newspaper in New York and New England--and it says that the Elis will battle on spirit and crutches. It tells of Jayvee members thrown into the breach. It tells of frantic shiftings within the Yale backfield. It enumerates the hospital list of Bulldog regulars. It does not mention that Yale's fine sophomore quarterback, Dean Loucks, will be playing second string on Saturday behind Bob Brink...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/19/1954 | See Source »

...rose to loud applause spiced with a few frantic squeals and called for "some get acquainted music." Then he minced across the stage, introducing the Jazz trumpeter and finally the blonde harpist-"the only feminine member of our group." "Oh yeh," queried a male voice in the balcony...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Liberace and Old Lace | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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