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...lovers and curiosity seekers of unrestricted tastes. First, Guy Lombardo, 62, borrowed four musicians from Count Basie, 60, for several numbers that sounded Royally Canadian. The Count countered by swiping eight guys from Guy, for a medley indistinguishable from basic Basie. But it took that great ham operator, Jackie Gleason, 49, to get the bands jamming together, when, with short waves of his smoldering cigarette, he led the 32-man combined ensemble through Rampart Street and Johnson...
...James Thomas Aubrey Jr., 46, president of CBS-TV, the weekend promised to be a good one. He had gone to Miami to celebrate Jackie Gleason's 49th birthday, fully aware that his presence was itself a salute to Gleason's TV success. For Jim Aubrey was always conscious of his power...
...Elaboration. But on this Friday afternoon in Miami, James Aubrey was not planning to fire anyone. The Gleason party, complete with June Taylor dancers, was over. The TV king was ready for a good time. And then the telephone in his Fontainebleau suite rang. It was New York, and it was someone with enough authority to order him back immediately. No weekend, no pretty girls, no fun; instead, airport, jet, worry...
...strike lay in the fact that most of the locals of the International Longshoremen's Association, beginning with the pace-setting New York local, had accepted new four-year contracts in recent weeks. But negotiations dragged on in Galveston and Miami-and I.L.A. President Thomas W. Gleason kept all his men off the job while waiting for unions everywhere to settle...
...hours. With that, things began to happen. The National Labor Relations Board, which normally takes weeks to ponder such moves, got federal courts in New York and Baltimore to order the strikers back to work. The union at first ignored the injunctions, but at week's end "Teddy" Gleason, perhaps noting the congressional clamor for a law to forbid another such walkout, ordered his men back to their jobs everywhere except in Texas and South Atlantic ports...