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...deep-rooted aversion of most business editors to controversy, gloom or criticism-in tacit cahoots with the managerial mentality that believes that the private lives of corporations should be immune from the irreverent scrutiny to which the press routinely subjects politics, government and the boudoir antics of showfolk. "Business too often takes the attitude that the press must cooperate or be guilty of an antibusiness attitude," says the Chicago Sun-Times's deep-digging Financial Editor Austin Wehrwein, who frequently writes columns on the mythical Pfutzer Foundry & Finished Tool Co. (cable address: PFFT) that not only spoof business shenanigans...
Comic Eddie Cantor, 65 last January, was set to join the small roster of well-heeled showfolk collecting Social Security old-age benefits (some others: Francis X. Bushman, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason). Whenever Millionaire Cantor and wife Ida get their monthly $161.70 (for any month in which Eddie earns less than $80), they will forward it to a New York boys' camp where Cantor gamboled 53 summers...
...Records had shipped some 200,000 LP recordings of the show (list price: $4.98) by the end of last week, and orders were coming in at a joyous rate of some 10,000 a day-or at about the clip of a good-selling pop single. Equally gratifying to showfolk was the advance order for two versions, single LP and big (3 LP) album, of Broadway's latest hit musical. The Most Happy Fella, which, at more than $500,000, was even bigger than My Fair Lady's had been. The figures added up to robust new evidence...
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