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...show has been gradually winning U.S. audiences away from other forms of TV comedy. My Favorite Husband (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS), a happy-family newcomer, last week boasted a Trendex rating of 25-compared to only 21.5 for its top competitor, the gaudy Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. The fact that Husband was able to equal, and then surpass, the rating of one of the best and oldest of the expensive variety shows may have played an important part in the decision to break up the team of Caesar and Coca next season (TIME...
...hours last week, the fair wind of compromise blew in the New York Central fight, but then the storm clouds gathered and both sides started thundering. Rumors of a compromise started when Robert R. Young's Texas millionaire friends, Clinton W. Murchison and Sid W. Richardson, made a flying trip to Manhattan to talk to the Central's President William White and some of his directors. Afterward, the Texans flew back home and the word went out that no compromise was possible in the bitter fight...
Then Murchison cleared up another question that had been hanging fire for weeks. Did he and Sid Richardson actually own the 800,000 shares of New York Central stock they were supposed to have bought from the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad? Central President William White flatly announced that they did not. Said Murchison: He and Richardson came into actual possession of the stock this week, and "we're going to vote it for Young...
...trick to skirt the ICC rules, that Young and Alleghany still control the line. C. & 0. Board Chairman Eaton, said the Central, had obligingly sold the C. & O.'s 800,000 shares of Central stock, which had been held by a trustee, to Young's millionaire friends Sid Richardson...
This week Young announced the first seven members of his slate for the Central's board. Heading the list: Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison...