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...Mere Conduits." Butler's blast caught CBS President Frank Stanton sitting in a convention box alongside Harry Truman's, sent him rushing to his network's backstage headquarters. There Sig Mickelson, CBS vice president in charge of the coverage, was already getting up the explanation: CBS had made no commitment to show the half-hour film, actually showed the last six minutes of it after carrying four brief interviews with politicos, fill-ins by four of its commentators, and a one-minute commercial. The network, said Mickelson mildly, was simply "exercising our news judgment" in what...
...pressures or no, the 1956 steel strike symbolized something far more sig nificant for the long-range health of the U.S. economy. For the first time in a major labor dispute, the Federal Govern ment had played a role consistent with the "partnership" theory of labor-management relations. The Administra tion, without public threats or posturing, made it clear to both sides that it would take action in the interests of the econ omy if the shutdown continued much longer. Then, having made its point, it re lied both on economic and moral pressure to bring about a voluntary settlement...
...messages are sent in code to keep them away from CBS signal-stealers. Boasts NBC's Assistant Producer Robert Graff: "We're going to hit them with every barrel we've got. We're going to be the first and the best." CBS News Director Sig Mickelson, serenely confident, says: "NBC started too late. They're six weeks behind us in all their plans...
...action out of the barrack confines and into the barbed-wire compound at intervals, he has made a fluent film of the play. He has also got crisp characterizations from his cast. William Holden gives one of his quietly competent performances as a cynical G.I. Otto Preminger and Sig Ruman play comedy Nazis. Don Taylor, Richard Erdman, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves and Co-Author Trzcinski himself play P.W.s. Robert Strauss repeats his stage role as Animal, a big, hairy oaf who lumbers around in long winter underwear dreaming out loud about-Betty Grable...
...SIG GREENBERG Brooklyn...