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...guilty parties, charged Southwestern Bell, was King Van Lines, Inc. a big Wichita trucking outfit operating from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The evidence: a photostatic copy of a King interoffice memo which Bell's lawyers got from a disgruntled trucker that proved King was working a switch on the old "collect call" routine. Said the memo from King's vice president John Kelso: "I know the method, I think, where we can save 30.89% immediately on our phone calls. Coupled with one or two other ideas we should be able to cut our communications bill...
...accused of malpracticing what it preaches. Scriptwriter Michael Wilson, who cinemadapted the 1945 bestseller by Jessamyn West, was denied a screen credit for his work because he pleaded the Fifth Amendment in 1951 in refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The studio, a small outfit, was of no mind to risk its principal ($3,200,000) for principle. Be that as it may, Wilson's too-earnest but sometimes charming script is the best thing about the picture; for Director William Wyler, who often seems a pretty citified feller in all these country doings...
...contrast to Harvard, only two groups exist on the campus, the Mask and Wig, a tweedy Hasty Pudding outfit, and the Pennsylvania Players, a half-serious dramatic group...
Today they meet a team that has never measured up to expectations or even matched a promising opening-game performance. But they will see a team arranged differently from that which has lost five straight and they may see team playing with more unity than the former outfit...
...army of World War II. ex-Army Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 36, credited with dispatching 40 Nazi soldiers to the glory of the Third Reich, landed a job after long spells of sickness and penury (TIME, Oct. 1). Kelly, taken on .by a St. Louis scrap-metal outfit as a contact man. said happily: "I'm among friends here...