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...proposal to get the public to share in the responsibility for TV programing last week highlighted the networks' attitude toward their urgent problems. One night last month Board Chairman Sigurd S. Larmon, of Madison Avenue's topflight Young & Rubicam ad agency, suggested to the major network presidents that a committee of responsible citizens be set up to make recommendations for TV reform. The response of NBC's Robert Sarnoff and CBS's Dr. Frank Stanton were made public last week. NBC took up the adman's idea with enthusiasm, expanded it into an elaborate proposal...
...keyboard was a musician, all right-but was he a topflight pianist? The question agitated most Manhattan critics last week, but it failed to disturb the crowd that thronged Town Hall to hear an eagerly awaited debut. Regardless of critical quibbles, Germany's 47-year-old Hans Richter-Haaser clearly proved to be one of the biggest keyboard talents to hit Manhattan in years...
...courts, arguing that the steel strike has not yet endangered the national health or safety, the only basis on which the law permits an injunction to be issued. Industry had precious little to gain from the use of Taft-Hartley either; management could hardly expect to get topflight production out of the angry workers ordered back to their jobs...
Died. Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, 74, topflight British scientist who chairmaned the Air Ministry's secret research committee that devised air weapons for World War II, supervised and contributed significantly to the development of radar in time to provide a chain of radar stations for the Battle of Britain, personally carried (1940) the magnetron, heart of radar, to the U.S. where it was quickly put into mass production; in Fareham, England...
...court, the Bembas had massive support. To plead their case, topflight Barrister Charles Russell, Q.C., carefully briefed by Catholic churchmen, had flown in from London. Listening intently in the tiny courtroom was Catholic Bishop Francis Mazzieri of Ndola, and packed beside him were clergymen of many denominations. All the Christian missionaries in the territory knew what might be at stake. There are only about 9,000 white missionaries in Africa (pop. 233,775,000). This means that native converts must carry the main burden of spreading Christianity, and they cannot function effectively if native courts can punish them for giving...