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...daily newspapers are strikebound, TIME brought the first detailed printed news of the election. As soon as Bill Schroeder opened his news and book store (see cut) on Public Square, a news-hungry crowd rushed in, a customer cried: "Here's TIME!" and the magazine was a quick sellout. It was much the same at other downtown newsstands and neighborhood drugstores. Said the struck Cleveland Press's Editor Louis B. Seltzer: "I sat here reading the election story and found myself more and more amazed. With the speed of a daily, TIME had gotten out and distributed nationwide...
Matinee has been bought by such sponsors as Bab-O, Motorola TV and Tide, but it has never been a sponsor sellout. However, prestige-conscious NBC is so happy with its plaything that it has booked Matinee for a second year, with a $5,000,000 budget. An "Emmy" Award winner ("Best contribution to daytime programming"), Matinee currently gets more than 2,000 letters a month, last week vaulted into the top slot of daytime dramatic-show ratings...
Chances are, the sellout crowd would have come anyway. Toronto's citizens are soft touches for sports; they would have packed the Maple Leafs' ballpark for a dog show-especially one that got the magnificent ballyhoo laid down for last week's hoked-up "world heavyweight championship" squabble. The figures: that elegant gypsy, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, and Canadian Heavyweight Champion James J. Parker, otherwise known as the Saskatoon Statue...
...SELLOUT . . . THE FULL EXPOSURE OF BRITAIN'S PERIL. So read the headlines in the London Daily Express, run by crusty old (77) Lord Beaverbrook, last of the imperialists. And what was the Express so vexed about-Cyprus, Singapore, Suez? No, the deadly peril to Empire, the "mortifying and shameful act of surrender" was the British Cabinet's decision to permit The Texas Co. to buy the British-owned Trinidad...
...longer satisfied with yesterday's dominolike housing developments. Location and landscaping have become vital. In Southern Cali fornia's Orange County, long one of the state's boomingest areas, thousands of houses are going begging, while developments in the San Fernando Valley are still a sellout. One big reason is that Orange County is becoming heavily industrialized; people would rather live in pleasant, factory-free surroundings even though they may have to drive 30 miles to work. The story is the same in Atlanta, where builders are discovering that prospective buyers flock to developments in the rolling...