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Time and again, Bradley ordered the dockers back to work, then backtracked because powerful Manhattan locals refused to go back until the other Atlantic ports had signed. Reason: the Manhattan leaders had been excluded from the final negotiations, suspected a sellout. Thus, from disunity in the I.L.A. as well as disagreement among the shippers, the strike sputtered on for five more days, was not finally settled until week's end. Cost to the shippers: $3,000,000 a day; to the 45,000 strikers: $9,000,000 in wages...
...provide Merman with Happy Hunting. As anticipated, she drove her sputtering vehicle to solvency before the first-night curtain. The advance sale: $1,500,000. Part of this take came from theater parties, a growing force on Broadway, which trade tickets for contributions to charity. (Happy Hunting drew 74 sellout parties plus 50 others that partially filled the theater.) Another force that sweeps up tickets in wholesale lots: the expense-account economy, in which advertising agencies and public-relations men pass out good seats to good clients and visiting friends...
...performances by the greatest basketball players in the world. Only a few years ago, pro basketball was a hobo sport that smelled of low-grade locker rooms and considered itself lucky if it weaned fans away from pinball and professional wrestling. Last week's game was lively-and sellout-proof of pro basketball's coming...
...climb on the FBI bandwagon was Whitehead's old boss, the A.P., which bought serial rights to the book in November. A.P.'s version was offered on an exclusive basis to the first member newspaper in any territory that asked for it. When the book became a sellout, publishers who had been beaten to the A.P. series went to work to find another one. United Press assigned staffers to put together a six-part series, with a preface by Hoover, on the FBI's top cases, from Al Capone to Brink's. The only major wire...
...example of widening U.S. impact is bearded, Scottish-born Alan Davie, 35. His discovery of Jackson Pollock in 1948 came as a revelation: "I was amazed to find that I wasn't alone." Davie's recent Manhattan show of his free-form, Druidical abstractions was a near sellout, with eight large paintings snapped up by museums and collectors. Davie's sales in six previous London shows: none...