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There had been a mix-up the week before when Greta Garbo, whom Oboler thought he had bagged for his March of Dimes program (TIME, Jan. 26), turned out to be uninformed of the fact, and failed to make her advertised radio debut. Garbo partisans and Oboler resenters-two large classes-waxed bitter about "high-pressuring" and "committing big names in advance of their consent." Others merely observed that Mr. Oboler had been a little too busy for his own good...
This was not the only sequel to the anti-trust suits the Government filed fortnight ago against NBC and CBS (TIME, Jan. 12). Mutual last week hopped into the mix-up with its long-rumored suit against NBC, asked $10,275,000 damages for the disadvantages it claims to have suffered at NBC's hands. To NBC lawyers this, on the face of it, posed a chilling question. If they fought the Government suits and lost, Mutual's case for triple damages under the Sherman Act would be hard to beat. Mutual, which had complained much...
Bully. It was over a mix-up right in his own yard that Butch was shrillest and worst behaved. For years, colleagues and subordinates at City Hall had endured his bullying and abuse. Said Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "LaGuardia, in his years in office [has] . . . emphasized his vulgar irascibility, his bullying intolerance" and his inability to cooperate even with his own appointees...
...giddy mix-up of telephone and radio communications in Jersey City turned station WAAT into a vast party line...
...banning of U.S. correspondents from Iceland last week could not be laid at the door of Britain's Ministry of Information, but London newsmen laid it there anyhow, largely on the grounds that any press mix-up would find the Ministry up to its hips...