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...apparatus like submariners at battle stations, lit by little more than the flicker of eight TV monitoring screens. Director Harry Coyle, 35, an ex-bomber pilot who, like most of the others in the mobile unit, is a veteran of TV's infancy, chain-smoked from his perch on a high stool, his eyes darting back and forth. Crammed in front of him and to his left stood screens flashing four different views of the game, plus a fifth monitor linked to another camera focused on cards bearing players' names. Above this cluster of screens hung two more...
Uptown Gossip. Amidst its planned madness, WILY also has exhibited civic spirit-it helped to get children placed in foster homes, campaigned for improvement in the Negro community. From its pigeon perch on top of a fruit market, WILY collected neighborhood news by offering listeners $5 for tips on human-interest stories or uptown gossip. "Radio isn't like it used to be,'' says balding, Baltimore-born Manager Tannen, who once worked as a chorus boy in Mae West's Catherine Was Great. "It has become like wallpaper, a companion...
...Woman's Secret. In Columbus, Ohio, after police, alerted by suspicious merchants, followed Catherine Clegg, 34, found in her car and in a trick skirt, a chicken, two pounds of butter, a small ham, oranges, a package of chopped beef, a pound of perch, a pound of bacon, a steak, a box of Kleenex, a bottle of milk of magnesia, two kinds of toilet soap, two bottles of headache tablets, a couple of combs, a bottle of shampoo and two kinds of hair bleach-almost none of which had been paid for-she explained: "I didn...
After a year of relative quiet on its perch at 44 Bow, the Ibis suddenly disappeared again in April of 1953. This time, however, Thresky was not dragged around to visit strippers and barbers. Instead, he was presented to Semyon K. Tsarapkin, deputy representative of the USSR in the United Nations, to be placed on one of the spires of the new Moscow University. At this, the 'Poon became irritated, and demanded that the Russians return Thresky. Petitions protesting the 'Poon's breach of international courtesy were circulated in the Yard and at Radcliffe, but a 'Poon delegation raced...
...Thresky again disappeared mysteriously only to be photographed at various local points of interest. He was returned to the 'Poon offices last June, but will probably not attain his former heights until the 'Poonsters scrape up $45 to cover the cost of resoldering him to his perch. How long he will stay up thereafter is uncertain...