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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crooner Eddie Fisher, who can use some good publicity these days, set up a $2,000 award in modern music and a $4,000 award for classical music at Brandeis University, both named for banjo-eyed Vaudevillian Eddie Cantor, who gave Fisher his first show-biz break nine years ago. Appointed advisers for the scholarships: Cantor for the modern, dynamic Conductor Leonard Bernstein for the classical...
...empire is firmly based on the fact that the four Cowles dailies are good newspapers. They cover the dogfights as well as the international crises, send reporters to club meetings as well as the Kremlin. The Des Moines papers have 214 stringers; the Minneapolis Star once used three editors, five photographers and twelve reporters and rewritemen on a plane crash. Both cities use four-color news pictures (the Star regularly has one on its front page). Both produce Sunday papers that are regional institutions, provide readers with everything from soil-conservation guidance to fine sequence pictures of Big Ten football...
Mixi. A midget-sized (1 pt.) portable plastic mixer for cocktails, milk shakes, etc. will be put on sale by the Sibert Mfg. Co., Newark. The mixer will run for four months of normal use on two flashlight batteries. Price...
...chairs) with a new device to guard against sag. Instead of woven jute-webbing supports for the furniture's coil springs, Simmons' pieces will have a steel-grid support suspended by rubber torsion springs. This will not only make furniture more comfortable but prevent sagging after long use, says Simmons. Sofa price range...
...FOUR TO GO, by Rex Stout (Viking; $2.95), is "compact and full of meat . . . The use of the mind is. as always, pre-eminent...