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Today, Arlington is maintained by a crew of 90 ground keepers, who carefully tend the grounds, repair crumbling headstones and monuments, and dig graves with huge mechanical diggers that can scoop out a regulation 5-by-3-by-8-ft. hole in eight minutes. One man has the sole duty of patrolling the cemetery endlessly to remove withered wreaths and fading flowers from the markers. From neighboring Fort Myer, 60-odd husky, white-gloved soldiers act as pallbearers, buglers, riflemen (to fire a farewell volley into the air at every military burial) and 24-hour-a-day sentries...
...three networks are pouring more than $75 million into the next few months. The deluge will include some memorable repeats from other seasons: there will be, for example, another Peter Pan with the matchless Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard. But there will also be new productions that ransack libraries, scoop in ballerinas, acrobats, actors, film and ideas from just about everywhere. Most favorites will be back. For the first time, the major Hollywood studios will be onstage or on cathode, shuffling for attention: after years of sulking, the movies have decided to embrace TV. The hug will approach strangulation...
Into this storybook East comes plucky Susan Hayward, thrusting her determined chin at consular aides, British policemen and inscrutable Chinese who do not seem sufficiently eager to drop everything and help search for her husband (Gene Barry) behind the Bamboo Curtain. As someone defensively points out, her husband-a scoop-minded magazine photographer-knew he was taking a considerable chance when he crossed the Red border without a visa and loaded down with cameras...
Actually, President Smith's "message" was painfully clear. Stripped of such Smith fog as "I want a magazine with scope, not scoop," he had one simple objective: to try to put the company on its feet. When Smith was named president more than a year ago, he knew he had a hard job ahead of him. (Collier's had just taken a drastic step to save itself by changing from a weekly to a biweekly.) But it was harder than he expected. Less than a month after he took over, he found that Crowell-Collier, once...
...Sketches of a 2,600-ton power shovel, made by the Marion (Ohio) Power Shovel Co., probably the largest piece of mobile equipment ever built. The $2,500,000 shovel, as high as a twelve-story building, will scoop out 100 tons of the earth and rock that covers coal deposits every 50 seconds...