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...sports complex will feature a 25,000-seat main arena building completely free from the interior columns that give present Garden fans a frequent crick in the neck. The new design by Soapman- Turned-Architect Charles Luckman will achieve its pillarless view by what he calls "the first use in such a large structure of a compression ring"-steel cables imbedded in concrete that support the roof. Onetime president of Lever Brothers Co. (1946-50), Luckman now employs 336 planners, architects and engineers, currently has $202 million worth of construction work under way from missile research centers to Los Angeles...
...Soapman McElroy should sign Dick & Rita up real quick for a new soap opera. Their story is a natural and has wonderful possibilities. Will Dick be deported? If so, will Rita follow him? Tune in tomorrow for the next thrilling episode of Yasmin's Other Father...
...Accepted the retirement, as head of the Citizens Food Committee, of Soapman Charles Luckman, whose razzle-dazzle promotions had counted for little in actual food savings but whose noisy rousing of public interest had helped get promises from distillers, bakers, poultrymen and others to cut grain consumption by 100 million bushels...
...Just as Soapman Charles Luckman's high-powered voluntary save-food campaign was all fueled up and ready to go, Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson clomped a heavy foot on the brake. At a press conference in Chicago, tactless Clint Anderson casually dismissed meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays as just "symbols of sacrifice." They were not intended "primarily to save food themselves," he said, but "to get the public in the frame of mind to conserve food." It was "like going to church on Sunday. . . . It's a reminder...
...Soapman Luckman was indeed rolling. No one could have crowded more into the nine days since Harry Truman had telephoned him to come to Washington and head the "save food to save Europe" campaign...