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Since the TV version of Easy Aces is a filmed "package" show, produced by the Frederic W. Ziv Co., and since several sponsors will carry the show over 40 stations of the Du Mont network, Goodman Ace cautiously hopes to escape the twin furies which pursued him in radio-Hooperatings ("the rating system is a $50,000 tail wagging a $50 million dog") and vice presidents ("the only morons in radio are in the offices"). He suspects that he and Jane talk too much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself...
Metropole (by William Walden; produced by Max Gordon) was a short-lived satiric farce which tried to poke fun at The New Yorker magazine and its fabulous editor, Harold W. Ross. Calling the magazine Metropole and the editor Frederick M. Hill, it depicted the wacky office life of a well-mannered publication, portrayed an explosive editor suffering from absentmindedness and ulcers...
...Void. The week-long meeting, the first of its kind, was called jointly by the World Council of Churches and the International Missionary Council, to discuss the position of the Protestant churches in Southern and Eastern Asia. In addition to General Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft of the World Council and the International Missionary Council's Chairman John A. Mackay, the meeting included five bishops (from the Philippines, India and Japan), and delegates from almost every country in Asia...
...Mikel (W), defeated Foster, 3-2; Nawn (H), defeated Muller, 3-1; Allen (W), defeated Bacon, 3-1; Dresser (W), defeated Plimpton, 3-1; Flagg (H), defeated Pichinson, 3-1; Thomas (W), defeated Hoar, 3-1; Tumain (W), defeated Harding, 3-1; Kneass (W), defeated Richardson, 3-1, Symmes (H), defeated Kent...
...Squires (W), defeated Watis, 3-0; Ufford (H), defeated Symington, 3-0; Elliot (H), defeated Larson, 3-1; Rcisner (H), defeated Terry, 3-0; Glessner (H), defeated Maxon, 3-2; Sexton (H), defeated Friends, 3-2; Buickner (W), defeated White, 3-1; Miller (W), defeated Bell, 3-2; Sargeant (W), defeated Gastill...