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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PORTABLE TV SETS now account for 20% of industry's sales, 15% of its dollar volume. One major TV maker (Emerson) reports that its portable TV-phono-radio has become its biggest seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

Best of the lot is NBC's Ernie Kovacs Show (Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T., replacing Caesar's Hour), an erratic, off-beat comedy hour during which Kovacs may become Pierre Ragout, French raconteur; Uncle Gruesome, specialist in bedtime stories for morbid children; or J. Walter Puppybreath, maker of untenable aphorisms. He may appear inside a bottle holding up an umbrella as rain pours in until he is completely submerged, or try to sell viewers on Lost beer, a nonexistent beverage, exhorting them to "Get Lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Summer Replacements | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...devices for aerial navigation, fire control and missiles. Quesada said: "We will accent reliability of performance-a characteristic woefully lacking in all our military weapons today." ¶J W. Eric Phillips, 63, became chairman and chief executive officer of Canada's Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., largest farm-implement maker in the British Empire (1955 world sales: $368 million). He replaced James Stuart Duncan, a company hand for 46 years, who resigned as president and board chairman. The post of president remains vacant. Toronto-born and educated (University of Toronto '14), Phillips won a colonelcy in the British army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jul. 16, 1956 | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...Alick Nkata, a young CABS singer. Having stayed three weeks as a house guest, the man left, saying, "Now I can tell my village that I alone have seen Big Mouth." One announcer is known as Umfumfumfu (Man WTho Never Gets Tired of Talking). Another is called Maker of Jokes That Sometimes Are Funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Iron That Catches Words | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

SOUTHERN PAPER BOOM is luring Hudson Pulp & Paper Corp. into newsprint production in Florida. The New York kraft maker will build a $25 million plant, has already started negotiation with Southern publishers for sale of its 120,000-ton annual output. Bowater Paper Corp. and International Paper Co., the South's biggest papermakers, also are expanding newsprint production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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