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This week ABC's President Robert E. Kintner, 44 (who teamed with Pundit Joseph Alsop in writing a prewar Washington column), totted up the results to date, found ABC's television business (in sponsor billings) to be 51% better than a year ago, and its radio business 15% up over 1952. "Star power" did the trick, Kintner says. Early in its new life, the network decided to brighten up its TV by going out for big entertainers. Vice President Robert M. Weitman, a Broadway-wise showman who turned Manhattan's Paramount Theater into a mint by combining...
...umpteenth story of her father's life, coincident with the publication of a new, grand-scale biography of Chekhov. Author Tolstoy was her father's secretary, and her book is a useful, bulky filing cabinet of Tolstoyana, though empty of literary substance. David Magarshack is a pundit of the Russian drama who has already written a life of Producer Stanislavsky and a study of Chekhov's plays. His huge, valuable Chekhov resembles Tolstoy only in that it, too. is more a receptacle for facts than a vehicle of literary criticism...
...Lausche wants to run for the Senate himself in 1954, he probably will appoint Burke to serve out the remaining 16 months of Taft's term and then make a deal to have Burke run for governor next year. Many an Ohio pundit believes that Vote-Getter Lausche, an independent, conservative Democrat who controls the state party organization, could win the senatorial nomination easily and beat any Republican in sight...
...York Times, there is a vast difference between a Washington correspondent and "The Washington Correspondent." For the last 21 years, The Washington Correspondent has been Pundit Arthur Krock, 66, whose title also makes him chief of the 24-man Times Washington bureau. Last week Chief Krock called the first full staff meeting since he took over the job. Solemnly, he explained that "to avoid misunderstanding," he wanted to read an important announcement: "On my own motion, Mr. James Reston will become The Washington Correspondent of the New York Times, with complete charge of the staff .. . Mr. Reston has received several...
...ATTEMPT OF PUNDIT ARTHUR KROCK [TIME, JAN. 5] TO LIMIT THE POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE GREAT AND GENTLE JIM HAGERTY TO THE CONFINES OF NEW YORK STATE SET ME LAUGHING FIT TO KILL...