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...report, CBS radio announced a slash of some 20 to 30% on evening charges for its regular customers. Daytime rates would be boosted about 5%. The daytime boost brings CBS's rates back to where they were in 1951, when radio began to have doubts that it could outdraw TV in the morning and afternoon...
...five networks around the U.S., each serving 500 to 1,000 movie houses. The hurdles are formidable: many technical problems are still to be solved, permission must be wrung from the Federal Communications Commission if air channels are to be used, shows must be found or devised that can outdraw free (and improving...
...five-man polka band. In a year they play as many as 275 one-night stands in theaters, clubs and dance halls from Scranton, Pa. to Girard, Kans., and from Calumet, Mich, to the Ohio River. In big towns on the circuit, they have been known to outdraw such name bands as Guy Lombardo and Vaughn Monroe 2 to i. In small mining and farming communities a Yankovic appearance can bring out a crowd that is twice the size of the local population...
Billings and Baptists. In spite of Cousin Emmy's lack of schooling, she is an astute businesswoman who knows how to demand and get the top billing which her rustic showmanship deserves. Says she: "I know and can prove that I outdraw Pappy Cheshire [a rival hillbilly] or anybody else. So you just go ahead and put me on top of that there pile, where I belong." Murmured one radio engineer while Emmy and her "kinfolks" rattled the control-room windows: "She sure knows how to keep that program hopped up." A teetotaling, nonsmoking, unprofane Baptist, who forsakes parties...
...onetime tent-show clown, bullfighter, prize fighter, Cantinflas at 31 is vice president of one of Mexico's leading film-producing companies (Posa). His films outdraw Hollywood's in Mexico. Charlie Chaplin, the world's greatest clown, has pronounced Cantinflas the "world's greatest clown...