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...HENRY J. KAISER is returning to Pacific Northwest scene of his big World War II shipbuilding operation. For about $8,000,000, Kaiser Gypsum Co. has bought Fir-Tex Insulating Board, Inc., of Portland, Ore., plus 15,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, Washington...
...trainer gets a workout helping padded giants collect their wits or their wind after a particularly savage block. Practice, after all, cannot be stopped just because a first-string tackle has staggered out of the huddle, rag-doll limp, his eyes rolling in his head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...
...flourish of flags, TV moved into the fall season. Curiously, the week's best drama was a 2,400-year-old Greek tragedy. Jean Anouilh's version of Sophocles' Antigone was given a striking, modern-day adaptation by Worthington Miner on NBC's experiment-happy Kaiser Aluminum Hour. As Creon, Claude Rains was a fine old despot, and once even squeezed out a real tear. But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan. In the title role of the girl trying to bury her brother, Italian-born Marisa...
...Next on Kaiser's toy pile: an aluminum-domed arena to house a radio and color TV station, a movie sound stage, a theater in the round, a combination ice rink and supper club, an 1,800-seat auditorium. When asked how he is going to make the aluminum dome look Polynesian, Kaiser replied confidently: "I'll stick living palm trees through the roof...
...called from the Kaiser's legendary assessment of Britain's military strength: "contemptible little army...