Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pont Show of the Month: When Humorist S. J. Perelman talked with interviewers about his libretto for CBS's musical Aladdin, he mused: "It is an extremely simple story known to every unintelligent schoolboy. Very little exists beyond the bare bones of the legend. It will take 90 minutes. That means a whole lot of me ringue." Producer Richard (Cinderella} Lewine spooned up $350,000 worth of meringue, enough to satisfy all the princes of Persia - and give viewers indigestion...
...Free Press was founded in 1947 after I.T.U. printers lost a contract battle with Colorado Springs' evening Gazette Telegraph (25,417), owned by hidebound Raymond Cyrus Hoiles (TIME, July 15), whose radically right-wing views fall just short of anarchy. Since last October Editor-Publisher Edward J. Byrne has fired 42 of 117 staffers (including five printers), Byrne warned last week that the paper is still in the red, will be folded if it is not in the black...
...told during the seven-day stretch most Pennsylvania trains were either canceled or late, and so much mail (4,000,000 pieces) piled up that the post office organized an emergency airlift of four airlines to move it south and west. The great trouble, said Pennsy Vice President J. Benton Jones, was "under-maintenance." Most of the stalled engines were between 15 and 23 years old, many of them the same engines that broke down under similar conditions during the winter of 1942-43. Yet the Pennsy cannot afford to buy new engines...
Every major cigarette maker did the same. R. J. Reynolds changed the filter on its Winston brand until in 1957 it let through 3.8 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar v. 3 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar for unfiltered king-size Chesterfield. The percentages are similar for Marlboro, Viceroy, Tareyton, Parliament and the rest of the popular filters. Net effect: "The public has paid premium prices of 2? to 6? per pack . . . for 'protection' they did not receive...
...tobacco industry quickly replied. Said P. Lorillard President Lewis Gruber: "Our advertising has been and is scrupulously honest and truthful. Our claim has been a simple statement of fact-Kent filters best of all the leading filter brands. These are facts, and they are documented." Added R. J. Reynolds President Bowman Gray: The figures used in the congressional report were published in a magazine (Consumer Reports) in March 1957; since then, Reynolds has improved its filter to reduce nicotine by 32%, tars by 27%. "It would appear that the figures quoted in the committee's report were hardly...