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...TIME Inc.'s Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, filling in as host for ailing Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, Harry Truman in top hat and formal morning dress, Bess in black, went to the Vatican for a half-hour private audience with Pope Pius XII. What was discussed? Truman clammed up and smiled: "When I was President and a big shot came to call on me and told afterward what was said . . . he didn't get in any more." After a quick change to street clothing, the Trumans...
...each of the three sessions, there were three half-hour talks, first by a scientist, then a philosopher, and finally a philosopher of science, or one of the other brands of humanists or scientists who were present. An hour of discussion followed the speeches...
...Jackie Gleason, who has recently been bested by Perry Como in the ratings, last week switched his half-hour show to 8 p.m. on Saturdays in order to start on even terms with Como's hour-long variety program. The result was not decisive, according to Trendex: Gleason narrowly topped Como...
Attendance at three half-hour classes weekly will be required of students taking the course taught by Bill Brooks, freshman swimming coach, and Charles Batterman, diving coach...
...there were ominous rumblings from the West Coast last week as CBS readied a new giveaway, Do You Trust Your Wife?, scheduled to go on the air next month in the half-hour period following $64,000 Question. The teasing title comes from the fact that married couples will be the contestants. A husband is asked whether he wants to answer a question himself -or "Do you trust your wife?" to answer it. The promised payoff is appropriately staggering: each week's winners get an income of $100 a week for a year and can come back the next...