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...Springfield looks to be in better shape this afternoon than it was a year ago, lack of experienced players may turn out to be Solem's new worry. He has only four seniors on his starting offensive eleven and a meager two on his defensive team. A horde of juniors and some sophomores comprise the rest of the squad...
Joey Smallwood's first big decision as premier was to spend the province's cash surplus developing the island's resources. Otherwise, he warned, "Newfoundland will never enjoy more than a meager, peasant economy." His opponents cried havoc, and wailed that the cash should be saved as a nest egg, but Joey retorted: "We will use it to get a goose that will lay us golden eggs...
Fortnight ago, Hulton Press reported that its earnings for 1951 had dropped from $895,000 to a meager $54,000 as a result of "heavy losses" on Picture Post "in particular." To put the once-robust magazine on its feet, the board named Hulton's Joint General Manager John W. Pearce, 38, as boss, and gave him a free hand to take drastic action. He did. Pearce slashed the price from sixpence to fourpence, the same as Illustrated, and guaranteed advertisers a circulation of 1,000,000 or better. If Picture Post failed to meet its guarantee, Pearce -announced...
Phonograph fans with a taste for Russian music have had a wide choice of domestic recordings, but until recently the supply of original Soviet performances was meager. When LP came along, some small companies dubbed from older Soviet records despite the fuzzy sounds that resulted. Quality recordings had to be made from Soviet master disks or tapes, and many of those are controlled by Manhattan's Leeds Music Corp...
This was not the way pretty, young Mrs. Kavic had thought of freedom. In the single furnished room where she tried to make do on her husband's meager pay, family spats became more & more frequent. "We had it better back home in Yugoslavia," Mrs. Kavic complained to the neighbors. If the neighbors were not entirely convinced, Mrs. Kavic was. Last fortnight she bade her husband goodbye, took her son, boarded a plane and flew back to Belgrade...