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...bottle of rum was produced to fuel four divers who would splash into the cold pool behind Mamie's number. Director Dwight Hemion insisted that Comic Tom Poston carry three spare sets of dice for his crapshooting sketch with Costello. Mamie asked for an "idiot card" to cue her at the pool, and, added Executive Producer Jules Green, "make sure that the water is deep enough where she's supposed to dive...
Richard W. Poston (now directing the same kind of program at Southern Illinois University), it has in six years lifted 22: communities (see map) out of one kind of municipal morass or another...
...study requests from 165 Washington towns; 60 have already organized informal study groups of their own. In the 22 communities where rejuvenation is accomplished or underway, 700 new jobs have been created, a total of $10 million worth of improvement projects financed. Says lean, intense Jack E. Wright, 37, Poston's successor as bureau director: "You can't have community lumbago when...
...Does the city desk know where to reach you at all times?" New York Post Editor James Wechsler asked nervously, as he sent his Reporter Ted Poston, a Negro, to Montgomery, Ala. for a series on the plight of the Negro there. But, as Poston's series made plain in the Post last week, there was no cause for alarm. Reporter Poston, 49, who was roughed up while covering the Scottsboro case in 1933, explored the city of the 6½-month-old Negro bus boycott for three weeks and found no danger, little tension-and plenty of help...
Advertiser Editor in Chief Grover C. Hall Jr. welcomed Poston to choose his own desk in the city room, opened the paper's files to him, set up appointments, offered him a staff photographer, and assigned City Editor Joe Azbell to act as guide and chauffeur. Poston hit it off so well with the staff that he told them a story on himself. He had instructions, he said, to phone Editor Wechsler every day with assurance that he had come to no harm. Poston added that he had got lost on Montgomery streets one night, and two white children...