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Most interesting of the teleplays was Man on Spikes, presented on NBC's Goodyear Television Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., E.D.T.). It was the story of an aging baseball player who is good enough for the majors, but fated by managerial decision never to get out of the bush leagues. The play had moments of power and persuasiveness when the ballplayer and his wife revolted against their fate. At these moments, Man on Spikes seemed to be on the verge of saying something important not merely about baseball, but about big enterprise in general and the enterprise of life itself...
Died. George Arthur Sloan, 61, industrialist (U.S. Steel. Goodyear Tire and Rubber) and president (since May 15) of the International Chamber of Commerce, who resigned in April after nine years as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association, 17 years as a member of the board; after an operation; in Manhattan...
...Goodyear Television Playhouse presented the satire: young (29) Novelist Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet. The small planet is the earth. The visit is made on an impulse by a cultivated space traveler named Kreton. He taxies his flying saucer from a distant galaxy somewhere in outer space right onto the rose-bed of an American family...
...Goodyear TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Cyril Ritchard...
...glimmering through many an allied industry, e.g., steel, rubber. On a wave of orders from Detroit, Bethlehem Steel's fourth-quarter profits rose 20% above 1953, to $48,383,317, and Republic Steel Corp.'s earnings for the comparable period went up 27%, to $17,781,218. Goodyear's final-quarter earnings reached $16,256.508 (v. $14,001,706 in 1953); Goodrich's hit $11,444,008, up more than $2,000,000 from the year before. Du Pont's fourth-quarter earnings doubled, to $2.59 a share; for the full year, profits rose from...