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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walking cautiously along the forest trail blazed by the British in Ghana and Nigeria, France last week permitted its African citizens in the dank and sweaty Cameroons (pop. 3,300,000) to take a big step toward self-government. Under a law passed by the French Assembly (under which France still maintains firm control over the West African colony's foreign affairs, defense and money matters), the Cameroons became something called a "State Under Trusteeship." Last week ambitious and outspoken Andre-Marie Mbida,.an ardently anti-Communist Cameroonian tribesman who once studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, took over...
...long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs"), drive home a folksy Ford (Motor Co.) commercial, or tug tears with a lugubrious, deep-voiced version of The Lord's Prayer. "I'm not strictly country boy, and I'm not strictly pop," says Ernie. "You know I couldn't top Roy Acuff's Grand Ole Opry stuff, and I couldn't beat Como. So I mix 'em, and the people like it fine...
Scared to Death. Easygoing Ernie grew up on a small farm near Bristol, a town (pop. 40,000) lying half in Virginia and half in Tennessee. There he ploughed tobacco rows, hunted coons and went cat-fishing. Occasionally the sheriff would ask him and his mother to come down to the jail and sing hymns to the prisoners. At 18 he was a $10-a-week announcer on a local station, went on to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with ambitions of becoming a professional concert baritone. "But the folks was havin' to scratch and grind for a few bucks...
Having bowed to Morse in his own company, Silberstein also faced trouble from him in Penn-Texas, where Morse had financed a stockholders' protective committee. At the annual meeting last week in tiny Cresson, Pa. (pop. 2,569), four days before the peace pact was signed, the Penn-Texas stockholders sharply questioned Silberstein's tactics in the Morse fight. They cited the protective committee's report that Penn-Texas stock had dropped from $19.62 to $11.25, that cash dividends dropped from $1.30 in 1955 to 35? in 1956, with none in sight...
...Warner Bros., producer of The Spirit of St. Louis (TIME, March 4), had reason to wonder if the epic's hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, is still a hero in his own home town. After big hoopla in Little Falls, Minn. (pop. 6,717), Spirit, showing in two local theaters, grossed a miserable $7.50 in one house on the second night of its run. Warner Bros.' take for the evening...