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...total of four major TV shows will have documented or dramatized various parts of the writer's life. From Cambridge, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif., presses have been rolling out books on Twain. Actor Hal Holbrook has already given more than 1,200 performances of his one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight!, in more than 250 cities. An added measure of Mark Twain's enduring success is financial. Although he nearly always had to scramble for money, had miserable luck as an investor (he sank thousands into a futureless typesetting machine, turned young Alexander Graham Bell away from...
...decision was made on a case that began in 1956 when rambunctious Ben Heineman, lawyer turned railroader (TIME, Dec. 15, 1958), stepped into command of the money-losing Chicago & North Western. Heineman found that some telegraph operators at one-man stations scattered along North Western's 9,288-mile route worked as little as 15 minutes a day, yet drew a full day's wage. Heineman decided to eliminate almost 200 of the stations, got an O.K. from regulatory commissions in four states...
...telegraphers union fought back, and in doing so lifted the issue from one involving only one-man stations to one that posed the central question of the right to end featherbedding. The union warned that it would go out on strike unless the railroad promised not to eliminate any job established before Dec. 3, 1957 without union consent. North Western refused to bargain, headed off the strike by getting a court injunction, which the union appealed. The Supreme Court ruled that elimination of jobs is a lawful bargaining point, and hence federal courts are barred under the Norris-La Guardia...
...Gentleman." Professor Lerner has never confined his lectures to the classroom. At frequent dinner parties ("Max's seminars"), he probes and harries top Indian leaders like a one-man Meet the Press. In his seven months in New Delhi he has also reported India's (and Asia's) slow awakening to the meaning of Red China. "For the first time," he wrote in one column, "they are coming to understand that the true imperialists may actually be Asians...
...family album," he has said, "was my research." Working in bright tempera because "it responds to me better," he painted everything from the Baptist Sunday school he had attended, to a memory called "The Lightning That Struck Rufo Barcliff it killed him." By last week, as his latest one-man show was being put together at Manhattan's Alan Gallery, his hand was surer than ever, but his heart was still at home...