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Herb Shriner Time (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) brings a latter-day and considerably less-than-life-size Will Rogers to the TV screen. Shriner, a transplanted Hoosier, has most of the master's mannerisms, from the errant lock of hair to the habit of quizzically scratching his ear. And he has some of Rogers' owlish humor. On the opening show, Shriner followed a comic monologue about an Indiana postmaster with a small-town skit that contained liberal borrowings from such poles-apart sources as Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...
Since its longtime publisher, Curtis Johnson, died last October, the rich daily has been run by an editorial board, overseen by banks, has had no top boss. Last week it got one. In as publisher and part owner stepped Hoosier-born Ralph Nicholson, 52, who has made a reputation for picking up bargains on a shoestring. In eight years, he built the rundown New Orleans Item into a moneymaker before selling it, in 1949, at a $600,000 profit. He bought an interest in the Tampa Times and its radio station, which two weeks ago he sold...
...despite the fertile pastures of authentic Hoosier talk and scenery she finds to work in, Author West turns out to have been digging with much the same fruitless energy...
Marion Willard Boyer, 49, up-from-the-ranks Hoosier who is vice president in charge of manufacturing for Esso Standard Oil Co., was named general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, to succeed Carroll L. Wilson, who resigned in August. Boyer fitted the pattern the AEC was looking for: a production man with a research background. Boyer, a chemical engineer, was making three times as much at Esso as the $20,000 the AEC will...
Spare the Teacher. Once in a great while, Charles finds, a teacher did crop up as a sort of hero. Such a one was Edward Eggleston's Hoosier Schoolmaster ("He's powerful smart, is the master . . ."). But these rare exceptions* have never been enough to brighten teacher's reputation...