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Transistor Phonograph. A 7½-lb. portable phonograph that uses transistors instead of vacuum tubes will be put on sale by the Philco Corp. The phonograph will play for 150 hours on the power produced by four standard flashlight batteries costing 10? each v. the $6 batteries used in current portable phonographs. Price...
...other hand, both Philco and American Viscose Corp. signed up some 19,000 workers for only 5? more an hour, while in the chronically depressed textile and clothing industry 135,000 workers were willing to renew their present contracts with no pay boost at all. To date, the majority of raises have been from 7? to 10? an hour, 50% higher than 1954's 5? to 7? an hour. Furthermore, in some cases, workers had actually taken a slight pay cut because of a downward cost-of-living adjustment...
...Goody ear-Philco Playhouse scored a near miss with a literate, well-cast play called Shadow of the Champ. On a transatlantic voyage, Broadway's Lee Grant, the disenchanted sister of a sportswriter, is thrown together with Eli Wallach, the boyhood chum and adult hanger-on of the heavyweight champion of the world (Jack Warden), and slowly draws him away from his lifelong shadow-like attachment to the champ. Scene after scene was nicely drawn, particularly those sketching the almost Oriental retinue that trails after a champion boxer, but the play as a whole failed to carry conviction...
...drama front, Eileen Heckart achieved a considerable tour de force on Philco TV Playhouse as a servant who chooses her employer's family over her own mother. ABC's U.S. Steel Hour captured much of (the bestselling novel's fun in an adaptation of Mac Hyman's No Time for Sergeants; Andy Griffith was convincing as the Georgia rookie with two left feet and an unconquerable spirit. Probably the week's most convincing drama was found on another pair of ABC shows. Pond's Theater proved again that Britain's late great John...
...Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Assassin, a drama about Leon Trotsky's murder...