Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serling had hardly begun his suturing job when-only six days before showtime -Producer Martin Manulis called his director. "We've had it,'' he said. "The Catholic press is saying we are doing a Communist play." All that had happened was that a columnist for some 45 Roman Catholic newspapers and magazines had written a story complaining that CBS was about to stage a play whose off-Broadway version in 1954 pleaded "for soft handling of suspected Communists." The story sent Madison Avenue into a flap, and ad agencies for go's five sponsors talked...
Last week Fehr and Pack had every reason to believe that they had a hit. From everyone from M.I.T. Mathematician W. T. Martin ("an imaginative presentation") to U.S. Education Commissioner Lawrence G. Derthick ("one of the best current films on mathematics"), the compliments poured in. But Professor Fehr and Producer Pack had one word of warning. The series is in no way meant to be a "course" in mathematics, but "a kind of mathematical hors d'oeuvre, an appetizer, a stimulant...
...When he heard he had been traded from the Kansas City Athletics to the Detroit Tigers as part of a 13-player shuffle, onetime Yankee Billy Martin sounded off with his customary ballfield belligerence. "They say six clubs were after me," said Billy. "If I was key man of the swap, I want a piece of the profit." Even though Billy stands small chance of collecting any cash, Detroit General Manager John Mc-Hale happily egged him on. "Keep talking," he told Billy-for an infield holler guy is just what the lackluster Tigers need...
Easy-money Patman prodded FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.: "I'm sure you will follow through on an easy-money policy." But Martin, as carefully noncommittal as ever, answered: "We are going to look at business conditions at all times and adjust in a way we consider most satisfactory for the economy." FRB's reduction from 3½% to 3% in the rediscount rate, said Martin, was merely a "signal that we saw some change in the business situation. But this doesn't mean that inflation won't occur, or that deflation is the order...
...Died. Martin T. Lacey, 75 (less one day), iron-jawed, dent-nosed sparkplug (since 1903) of the New York labor front, kingpin Teamsters union leader who fought the Beck-Hoffa-Dio racketeers for his New York Teamsters' Joint Council 16 presidency but lost it to Hoffa's pal, John J. O'Rourke, last January; of a heart attack in his sleep; in Washington Township...