Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upcoming specialties will be topped by Rodgers and Hammerstein's first TV original: a 90-minute musicollaboration on Cinderella, starring Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews. Ford Star Jubilee will hire Cole Porter. Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae. Dorothy Dandridge, Dolores Gray. George Sanders. Louis Armstrong to salute Composer Porter's 40 years of songwriting. Ford will also adapt Sidney Kingsley's Men in White and showcase MGM's The Wizard of Oz. Ed Murrow's, See It Now will include cathode reports from the Suez. Asia. Russia and South America, and a 1½hr. documentary...
...Mixed-blood Vietnamese who stayed behind suddenly found that the magic of being a metis had disappeared with the French. Instead of privileged citizens, they became foreigners who themselves had to be assimilated. Those who had held good jobs under the French administration found that the Vietnamese government would hire them-at a low salary-only if they forfeited their French citizenship. With the exodus of French firms, it became difficult for them to find any sort of work. Premier Diem signed a law requiring all Vietnamese with names like Jean. Henri or Marcel to take genuine Indo-Chinese names...
...Jackets Buttoned. Network rivalry hit a new peak. CBS posted a sign for its staffers: "Under no circumstances are you to patronize the NBC cafeteria." TV Reporter Vince Garrity caused an outraged flurry by flaunting ABC lapel pins in range of rival cameras. NBC went so far as to hire a professional lip reader to try to catch out-of-reach conversation, and ABC issued instructions to its staff: "Be sure when you are on camera, that you sit up straight, have your legs crossed modestly, and your jacket buttoned...
...slip of a girl with an expressive face and a vibrant voice who plays Joan, received tumultuous applause last night and deserved every bravo of it. Cast in the role of an inspired maid, Miss McKenna was simply inspired herself. She is radiant and divine-looking when, as La Hire says, "the spirit rises in her like that." Yet she can also be a comradely fellow-soldier to Dunois or, for brief moments, a well meaning, enthusiastic girl who is deeply perplexed that the people whom she wants to help dislike her. Miss McKenna's voice is especially wonderful. With...
...Jain priests from 21 temples in Ahmedabad. India won most of their demands (TIME. Nov. 7). The settlement includes 40 days' annual leave with pay (which may be accumulated up to three years), retirement pay to priests with over ten years of service. Temple authorities agreed to hire substitute priests on their days off, so that "the services of the gods are not interrupted...