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Then Hays went to Faubus, spent a quiet hour talking in the book-lined second-floor study of the executive mansion. By this time Faubus was worn thin under the increasing pressures. He agreed to cooperate fully (but not to capitulate). Brooks Hays called Adams and said that a telegram was on its way from Faubus to the President at Newport...
...telegram was delivered to President Eisenhower just as he holed out on the 435-yd. first hole at the Newport Country Club. The President read it slowly. Press Secretary James Hagerty scratched an answer in pencil on the back of the telegram, handed it to the President. Ike changed a word or two, initialed the bottom: "DDE." The historic confrontation was arranged between the President of the U.S. and a governor of Arkansas who had wrought a lot more than he could handle...
...circ. 585.121) launched its boldest raid on rival circulation. At the cost of "close to $1,000,000" a year for more newsprint and personnel, the paper began running complete daily stock-market quotations-a reader-fetching feature hitherto monopolized in the afternoon by Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Sum (circ...
...three papers, the World-Telegram is the only one hit hard enough by the circulation drop to have cut its advertising rates this summer; its sales fell 19%. compared with 16.2% for the Journal-American and 18.2% for the tabloid Post (circ. 350,814). The World-Telly has brightened its own financial section with new features, e.g., columns on Wall Street gossip, market letters and mutual funds, and switched Charles G. Haskell from his job as assistant managing editor, to run the business and financial pages. A spokesman denied that the changes were inspired by the Journal's plans...
Before a House Judiciary subcommittee last fall (TIME, Oct. 1), ASCAP Sympathizer Sinatra charged that Mitch Miller had tried to foist BMI songs on him while Frankie was at Columbia (Miller produced statistics in an effort to disprove the charge). In his telegram last week, Sinatra stated that Miller, Frankie's longtime bogey, had admitted accepting "large sums of money" from writers whose songs he recorded. Sinatra quoted Miller's words from sworn testimony: "Bob Merrill [responsible for If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd 've Baked a Cake and other hit tunes] would bring...