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Lord of this happy domain is Bold Venture's producer, Cincinnati's Ziv Television Programs, Inc. (runners-up: CBS Films Inc., MCA-TV, Ltd.). Founded in 1937 as a radio syndication outfit by Cincinnati Adman Frederic W. Ziv, the company went into TV eleven years ago with a good backlog of Hollywood feature films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs...
When he sold out his TV-film-producing organization (Television Programs of America, Inc.) last fall, Chicago Lawyer Milton Gordon put his proceeds from the $11,350,000 sale in the bank and went to the Orient to meditate. He had made his stake from such potboiling series as Ramar of the Jungle and Charlie Chan, but if he ever came back to television, said Gordon, "it would be to make something good." This week Lawyer Gordon, 49, is back from meditation and ready to do just that. His new producing organization, Galaxy Attractions, Inc., is preparing to dramatize...
...been discussing the need to raise pay to attract and hold good employees in the rapidly urbanizing and industrializing South. There are 552,000 textile workers in the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Recently, President J. Spencer Love of the nation's largest textile firm, Burlington Industries Inc. (52,000 employees), suggested that Congress raise the national minimum wage, now $1, to $1.25 an hour, so all mill operators would have to go up and none could chisel on wages to undercut his competitors on prices...
Buck Rogers Inc. Cook's brainpower has taken it into dozens of fields. The company devised the recovery system for the Army's Jupiter missile nose cone (TIME, June 9), has presented the Defense Department with a plan for a manned space platform. Cook engineers are working on recovery systems for Atlas and Thor missiles, and on the triple-nosed Cree rocket, designed to eject parachutes at altitudes up to 150,000 ft. and speeds as high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule...
HUGE URANIUM FIND, perhaps biggest in U.S., was made in Wyoming's Shirley Basin area shared by Utah Construction Co., Tidewater Oil Co., Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc. Reserves there total 1,500,000 to 4,000,000 tons of high-grade ore (.8% uranium oxide), but most of it will not be mined for a long while because market is glutted...