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...carefree '20s came Gene Austin, asweet-voiced tenor whose story was evocatively told last week on NBC-TV's Goodyear Playhouse. Millions of televiewers had never heard of him, but other millions (over 40) had grown up and fallen in and out of love listening to him sing on records or radio. After thumping a piano in brothels around the country, then touring in vaudeville, Gene began recording, and chiefly between 1924 and 1930 sold 86 million records. Barrel-shaped but still velvet-throated at 56, Tenor Austin, singing the sound track, brought back the nostalgic old daze...
...Goodyear Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). First Love, with Claire Bloom, James Daly (color...
...factory hand, can qualify for a Prudential loan or mortgage. At the top of the Pru's list of borrowers is a Who's Who of U.S. industry: International Business Machines (some $550 million since 1936), General Motors, Chrysler Corp., Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., International Harvester, Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...Goodyear Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). John Van Druten's The Princess Back Home, with Celeste Holm as an authoress in search of love (color...
...Raymond C. (for Christy) Firestone, 48, was elected president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the world's second largest rubber firm (just behind Goodyear), succeeding Lee R. Jackson. 65, who moves into a newly created position as vice chairman of the board. Ray Firestone, fourth son of Company Founder Harvey S. Firestone (brother Harvey Jr. is Firestone's board chairman and chief executive officer), started with Firestone as a gas-station attendant in California after graduating from Princeton...