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...monthly survey, the National Association of Purchasing Agents found that "production shows signs of recovering." Ward's Automotive Reports said that for the first ten days of February, auto sales rose over January's best ten-day period, the first such rise in four months. Tele vision manufacturers reported that sales were better in the first five weeks of 1954 than in the same 1953 period...
...Brother in an emotionless, post-brainwashing meeting with Julia. It was a production that could easily have gone embarrassingly grotesque at one false move, but maturity of view and painstaking execution (stagehands were fitted with felt shoe pads to keep out distracting noises) combined to make the first tele-version of Nineteen Eighty-Four a major TV achievement...
TELEMETER, Paramount Pictures' device for bringing first-run movies and special events to tele viewers, will shortly get its first test (and the first test of any method of telecasting first-run movies). In Palm Springs, Calif., 400 homes will see a feature film the same night it is premiered in movie houses. Viewers will drop coins into their sets to "unscramble" the telecast, which cannot be received on an unmetered...
...pressing machines, and took a two-day course in how to run them. Soon he offered Port-au-Prince its first nettoyage à sec. After the predictable number of mangled sleeves and missing buttons, Jimmy's crew of five began to get the hang of dry-cleaning. The tele jiol (Creole for word-of-mouth telegraph) advertised his service, and bundles of clothes poured in on muleback and in baskets on peasant women's heads. Jimmy expanded his plant, opened a laundry (the Blanchisserie Jimmy). Today his business is worth...
Camera Chase. To learn the new job, some newspaper-owned stations, such as the New York Daily News's WPIX, the Chicago Tribime's WGN-TV and the Fort Worth Star-Tele gram's WBAP-TV, have set up separate TV desks, with a staff of newsmen and newsreel and TV cameramen. Even with all that, covering live spot news is often impossible. For example, when a freight plane crashed in Jamaica, N.Y. two weeks ago (TIME, April 14), a WPIX camera crew found it could not send on-the-spot broadcasts, though it was only...