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...This week, with the exhausted cast and crew back in Manhattan, Home was busy planning future one-week stands. It will visit Portland, Ore. and Seattle in June, later may go to Los Angeles, New Orleans and Mexico City. One day, says Morgan, "We want to take the show to a really small town and examine it in detail from one end of Main Street to the other...
...Milwaukee, promptly got a court order restraining the show from barring his son. But the sport show managers still refused to let Jerry cast another fly. Before Jerry was banned, he had already caught more than 100 trout. Prizes: a five-day Las Vegas vacation, plus three one-week vacations in northern Wisconsin. He would like to donate the Wisconsin trips to local orphanages, but the managers are hard losers; they insist that the vacations are not transferable...
...installed automatic control centers (see cut) for dispensing tickets in seven stations, including Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, plan other installations along their lines. A "ready sale"board, resembling a stock broker's quotation board, tells both customer and ticket agent what space is available for a one-week period on as many as 23 different trains. Then a special card, representing the passenger's choice of space, is passed through an electronic scanner that prints the Pullman ticket automatically. Elapsed time: two minutes. To accommodate customers ordering reservations from other locations, Pennsy has a photoelectric wire...
What the U.A.W. wants is a guarantee of a weekly wage for 52 weeks a year for all its hourly paid workers. If a man is called in one day and then laid off, says Reuther, he should get paid for the whole week. If he is notified in advance of a one-week layoff or more, then he should get enough to "maintain the same living standards as when fully employed." The payments, says U.A.W. with a hint to employers, should be integrated with state unemployment-compensation benefits so that "employers can reduce their liabilities by effectively working toward...
...Minsky's burlesque house in Newark, N.J., where bumps and grinds have found refuge from Manhattan's clayfooted bluenoses, Mrs. Tommy Manville, 31, opened a one-week stand to supplement her income ($1,000 a week from Tommy). Asbestoscion Manville, 60, peevishly refusing to catch his estranged ninth wife's routine, snorted: "I haven't been to a burlesque for 46 years-and I won't start again with her stinky show...