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...since bowling proved to be right up television's alley. Originated by Chicago's Peter DeMet, who is also the kingpin of TV bowling, each hour-long golf show (Sat. 4 p.m., ABC) boils down to an 18-hole match between two top pros, e.g., Gary Middlecoff, Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen, playing before six simultaneously grinding movie cameras. The winner of each match gets $2,000 (the loser, $1,000) and the right to keep playing as long as he wins. Players can win bonuses of $500 for an eagle, $10,000 for a hole in one. With...
Some cinemoguls appeared calm. Much studio space is busier than ever, on lease to TV outfits when it is not being used to make the big, quality films on which moviemakers now concentrate. Production of high-budget films is on the upturn. Tough old Sam Goldwyn said slyly: "If Mr. Silverman will take good care of his theaters and play the best pictures available, keeping in mind how good they are rather than how cheaply he can get them, I am sure that he will not go out of business." Apparently just as sure, in spite of his cries...
Bill Brown led the scoring for St. Lawrence with three goals, while Ted Card with two scores and Sam Sammis with one tally completed the scoring for the Larries. Captain Bob Cleary, Ed Owen, Bud Higgenbottom, and John Copeland scored for the Crimson. Copeland got credit for his goal when the last varsity tally went in off a St. Lawrence defenseman...
RECIPROCAL TRADE: Dulles and Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said the Administration will ask a five-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act with its authorization for the President to cut tariffs by as much as 5% a year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, recalling that the Administration's 1955 request for a three-year extension had barely squeezed through the House, warned that foreign trade next year will require a herculean Administration effort...
...Uncle Sam thought of launching a Sputnik into...