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...movies shown in homes, schools and churches had big domestic moneymaking possibilities. Three months ago, Universal set up a subsidiary called United World Films Inc. and jumped into the little movie pond. Last week, after much splashing about, United World emerged as the pond's biggest frog...
...Count had a pat explanation for his stockpile of dollars. He said he had been a bootlegger in the U.S. during Prohibition, and was known as "Kid Tiger" (or was it "The Frog...
...autoworkers' Walter Reuther: "If our fight against increased prices fails we will begin a fight on the wage front."That fight, said Reuther, would be under taken only as a "last resort." Labor now realizes that wage boosts mean price boosts, that another such game of leap frog can end only in the wild inflation that everyone dreads. Labor also knows how to use the weapons of a war of nerves. But labor might be using those same weapons against itself...
Front Man. Louis' current band of unknowns is led by Saxophonist Joe Garland, composer of Leap Frog and In the Mood. They alternate with a white band from 6:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Between shows, Louis bounces through the restaurant kitchens to a crowded basement dressing room to shed his sweat-drenched shirt and gnaw barbecued ribs served on paper plates. On hand are a trunk of linen handkerchiefs, a dozen pairs of shoes ("They got to cool off"), and a typewriter. He says his hobby is "jus' typin'"-a typewriter has so many more keys...
...same time a lot of things were looking up-were fine as frog's hair. The spring-legged, limber-armed postwar baseball players seemed amazing (see SPORT). So did the first few of the shiny new cars and taxicabs. Nobody really wanted to argue with Father Divine's most widely quoted conclusion. It had just taken time to get used...