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...Goodyear TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Janet Blair in Doing...
TIRE PRICES, up 5% in the last few months, are headed still higher. Both U.S. Rubber and Goodyear have just announced 2½% to 5% price boosts because of continuing high crude-rubber prices, and the rest of the industry will probably follow suit. Predictions are for an overall 8% boost by June...
...nearly complete with contracts signed for 689,000 tons out of its total 865,000-ton capacity. So far, the U.S. has sold 22 of its 27 World War II plants (cost: $500 million), is now negotiating contracts to sell or lease four more. Among the buyers last week: Goodyear Tire & Rubber, which bought two plants with 116,000-ton annual capacity; Firestone Tire & Rubber, two plants with 130,000-ton capacity; Humble Oil & Refining Co., two plants with 89,000-ton capacity...
...Goodyear Playhouse presented an uneven play called Thunder of Silence, but gave star billing to an exciting new actress, Inger Stevens. Blonde, fragile and hauntingly attractive. Swedish-born Actress Stevens, 20, dominated the play in her role of a Czech refugee set down bewilderingly on a Midwest farm: her big-eyed silences were more eloquent than all the speeches of her fellow actors. Newcomer Stevens was recently seen as a teenager on the defunct Jamie series, with Child Star Brandon De Wilde...
...Goodyear Chairman Litchfield, now 79, and President E. J. Thomas, 55, who moved up to take over the operating end, have no worries about too much diversification. Chairman Litchfield is confident that the management team he has brought up over the years can carry the load and make any product set in front of them. Says he: "We will branch out just as far as we can go. Good management can make any business grow...