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...example, any Ohmi girl who married despite all the difficulties had her wages cut "because of decrease in efficiency." Such stories put public opinion behind the strikers. Natsukawa countered by offering strikebreakers a handsome $1.25 a day, plus cigarettes and sake. He sent a fleet of light planes to shower Tokyo and Osaka with 10 million leaflets, distributed thousands of matchboxes, floated huge balloons over Osaka with his message: "The All-Japan Textile Workers Union is destroying Japan's industry through Communist Party violence...
Other high-powered weapons, yet to come, in the CBS arsenal: The Chrysler Show, consisting of two separate series. The first is Shower of Stars (Sept. 30, 8:30-9:30 p.m. E.S.T.), a color-telecast monthly musical series. First offering: a musical "extravaganza," starring Betty Grable, Harry James, Mario Lanza. Climax (Oct. 7. 8:30-9:30 p.m.) is a thrice-a-month drama show. First offering: The Long Goodbye, with Dick Powell, Teresa Wright, Caesar Romero...
...plunged headlong into a "breakaway"* door. It didn't break, and Red was hospitalized with concussion and a mild case of shock. Skelton seems to be growing accident prone: last year he narrowly missed blowing off his head with a shotgun; last January he fell through a glass shower door, requiring 30 stitches in his arm; last April he sprained his back falling down a flight of stairs. This time, on only 30 minutes' notice, Nightclub Comic Johnny Carson (who is also M.C. of CBS's Earn Your Vacation) took over and did a very funny...
...used lumber, from railroad boxcars, which had to be cleaned and stripped of nails. Included in the construction are two fireplaces and one chimney for inside barbecue which required around 3,000 bricks . . . The house has 57 windows . . . one 15-ft.-by-20-ft. basement for furnace and shower, and one 12-ft.-by-12-ft. storm cellar which he dug by hand...
...face, he plays baseball with a boy's glee, a pro's sureness and a champion's flair. On the ball diamond, he is in a hurry; he never walks when there is room to run, even if only from bench to field or field to shower room. In the broad domain of centerfield, Mays covers ground with limber-legged speed to pull down balls tagged with the promise of extra bases. He throws from center with a zip and an aim that have brought chagrin to the National League's brashest baserunners...