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Football & Four Roses. T.N.T. was started just five years ago by Nathan Halpern, a University of Southern California graduate who worked as assistant to CBS President Frank Stanton before deciding to go into closed-circuit TV. He thought that movie theaters would be glad to get back some of the customers they had lost...
...Halpern has run such star-spangled events as the Marciano-Charles heavyweight championship fight last September and the opening of the Metropolitan Opera in November (TIME, Nov. 22). But he also learned that the big money lay in televising national sales meetings and other conventions for big corporations. In the past two years T.N.T. has televised eleven conventions for companies ranging from National Dairy (Seal-test) to James Lees carpets. At one such TV roundup, International Business Machines was able to brief 2,000 salesmen in Manhattan on a new electronic brain instead of bringing them to its Poughkeepsie...
...lines, scripts and actors. Customers have found the rates are often far below the cost of picking up travel expenses for an entire company's sales force. Last week's show, for example, cost G.M. several hundred thousand dollars (including rental of 50 giant, mobile projectors that Halpern bought for $500,000). But it was much cheaper-and far less trouble-than trying to bring all the guests to Flint...
...Jayvees' main offensive weapon is right halfback Jim Damis, sophomore who reached his peak against Princeton by scoring three touchdowns in the last eight minutes. Also starting in the backfield will be Larry Halpern at left half and George Nager at fullback. Both are juniors who can run very well once given the ball...
Starting the game for the Jayvees will be the regular first team of Jee Crehore at quarterback, Jim Davis and Larry Halpern at halfbacks, and Ed Galvin at full...