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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singer Nat "King" Cole, the first Negro entertainer to get his own TV network show (TIME, July 15), quit last week in disgust after a 13-month run on NBC. Reason: advertising agencies had failed to turn up a national sponsor for the show, which has been sponsored regionally. Cole charged that "many, not all" of the agencies had deliberately dragged their feet in the belief that a Negro "performer would hurt any national client's sales in the South. Said he: "This is nonsense. As an entertainer, I know I'm salable to all kinds of people...
...coin into the jukeboxes to hear Elvis Presley sing Heartbreak Hotel. When Tommy retired from the sea, he bought a guitar and sang for his meals in a succession of sleazy Soho clubs. British Songwriter Lionel Bart heard him, collaborated with him on Rock with the Caveman and helped turn him into a teen-age National Trust...
...Saviour by energetic Rector Charles Lester Kinsolving, 30. "Hell," he preached, "is a damnable doctrine-responsible for a large measure of this world's hatred. According to this doctrine, God, who commands us to love our enemies, plays the hypocrite by damning his enemies. This in turn stimulates the hatred of God by people who abhor hypocrisy-and it gives sanction to our hatred of certain selected enemies...
Businessmen who had worried in May were calm in December. Steelmen sensibly pointed out that the nation's heaviest industry need not always operate at emergency throttle. "The auto industry no doubt could turn out 12 million cars a year if absolutely necessary," said a steel executive. "But when it produces only 6,000,000 cars, no one complains that it is operating at only 50% capacity." At times, businessmen even gave thanks for the breather. Frank Magee, president of Aluminum Co. of America, noting that aluminum has often been in short supply, said cheerfully: "For the first time...
...production to catch up with blossoming markets or to supply new markets created by research. Industry laid out a staggering $7.3 billion for research and development, some 20% more than ever before. Every businessman knew that the money will eventually flood back to industry, as laboratory oddities turn into new consumer products. General Electric learned to make synthetic diamonds so cheaply that they will soon start competing with natural stones for industrial use. It also developed the first really practical telephone-TV system, plans to install the first one at a military base next spring. American Gilsonite licked the problem...