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...Other Timber prospects: ¶California's Governor Earl Warren will appear this week on a dignified, panel-type show for a question-and-answer period with newsmen...
...Chamber of Commerce, oozing cooperation and coexistence, offered to double or triple Russia's imports. He offered to buy British textiles, spices and herring, French electrical equipment and ships, Dutch tin, Belgian rayon, German, Italian and Japanese products. In return Russia would sell grains, coal, manganese and timber...
...representatives of seven candidates for the presidency of the U.S. drew straws in Washington last month. They were deciding in what order they would appear on Presidential Timber (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS), a new TV show designed to give each candidate 30 minutes on the air to use in whatever way he wants. CBS supplies the time, a moderator (Bob Trout), the set and the technical staff. Everything else, from studio audience to ideas, is up to the candidates...
Last week Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver was the first of the seven to take over on Presidential Timber. He brought his sprightly wife and 81-year-old father with him, as well as an album of family photos, some news films of Frank Costello on the witness stand, and a folksy informality of manner that gave the show more the air of a social visit than an appeal from a political platform. None of Kefauver's rivals is likely to top him in homespun amiability. What he lacks in TV forcefulness is compensated for by a persuasive...
...Pacific, the biggest single block. If this did not give Ohio Match working control of the railroad, it at least gave it the biggest single voice in its management. Unlike other investors, Ohio Match had not been buying Nipper for its oil lands; it was buying it for its timber lands. By virtue of its huge purchases, Ohio Match had been able to get long-term contracts to log Nipper's white pine stands for matches...