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...speeches at $100-a-plate political dinners go, the President's speech was notably unpolitical. Speaking from sparse notes printed on cards, he delivered not a tub-thumping pep talk but an earnest "account of what has been going on in Washington." The Administration's "great objective," he said, is to create "a government whose honor at home commands respect abroad." Other notes...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Willie Pep v. Jackie Blair...
...their own brand of protection. In 1950, the Daughters passed a resolution urging "the observance of national holidays as an antidote to the influx of aliens." But they also noted that holidays were slipping and hastened to support them. Their special nostrum, the Fourth of July, needed some pep, so they advocated "a return to the former ringing of bells, pageants and parades...
...first month of operation, 400 supervisory employees were put out to pasture. Nance set about filling the vacancies with younger men from Packard's own ranks, from other auto companies or Hotpoint, and set them all to work cutting production costs. Then he toured the U.S. giving dealers pep talks and listening to their complaints. He weeded out 200 weak dealerships and added 400 new ones (present total: 1,685). One of Packard's troubles, Nance found, was that dealers didn't know just what market they were after. Nance set them straight: while continuing to sell...
...last few years, the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American) has been having trouble. To pep up Collier's, the biggest troublemaker, a series of drastic shake-ups was prescribed (TIME, June 22, 1946 et seq.). But there was little improvement. Crowell-Collier's earnings dropped from a high of $6,500,000 in 1946 to a scant $76,497 in 1952, or 5? a share, the lowest of any major U.S. magazine-publishing house. This week Crowell-Collier announced that it had hired a new vice president, who will "take...