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...nearly $16,000-a-week payroll (duly noted by the London press) was guaranteed. Hardly worried. either was the guarantor-handsome, 31-year-old British Impresario Harold Fielding, who stood to make up in publicity and prestige what he would shell out of his pocket. Moreover, on a turnabout's-fair-play basis, U.S. Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo would welcome British orchestras to tour...
This result represents a striking turnabout from the elections of 1936 and 1940, in which the Faculty backed Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. No straw vote was taken in 1944, since Army and Navy authorities banned any news about politics in the Service News, the CRIMSON's wartime substitute...
Grain Prices. Despite the prospect of improved crops abroad, the U. S. Government raised its 1948-49 grain export goal to a near-record 450 million bushels, 20% more than six weeks ago. Skidding grain prices did a quick turnabout, with wheat at one time rising as much as 3? a bushel, corn rising...
...asked for the chance to work with Turnabout, which had just started. Its name means what it says: it's two theaters in one. At one end of the hall a puppet show is staged; when it ends, the revue begins at the other. The audienca sits on slipcovered streetcar seats, reverses them between shows; front seats for the puppet show are back seats for the revue (a nearsighted person has to sit in the center, or decide which he would rather see well, Elsa or the puppets...
...first year, Turnabout made $10,500 profit; last year it was up to $54,000. Every show night for the last six years every seat in the house has been sold...