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...their greengrocers, wearing bows of white tape to show that they wanted prices down. In Huddersfield the local N.F.H. chairman, Mrs. Neil Sykes, advised housewives to make their salads of nettle tops, primrose and cowslip leaves, dandelions and wood sorrel. And in a speech at Reading, Food Minister Maurice Webb made political capital of the boycott...
...Said Webb: "This is the private-enterprise way of giving you your food . . . The solution is ... marketing under public ownership. You know you have the remedy in your own hands. You did it with fish; now do it with vegetables...
...molls and satanic scientists. By avoiding such standard characters, Dragnet (Thurs. 10:30 p.m. E.D.T., NBC) lags in the Nielsen ratings, but it has won a devoted following among policemen from New Haven to San Diego, who welcome Dragnet's non-nonsense approach. Says 30-year-old Jack Webb, creator of the show: "We don't do it by underplaying-because underplaying is still acting. We try to make it as real as a guy pouring a cup of coffee...
Each episode of Dragnet is "the documented drama of an actual crime" taken from the files of the Los Angeles police. Webb, who also plays matter-of-fact Police Sergeant Joe Friday, says: "We use the oldfashioned, plain way of reporting, where you don't know any more than the cops do. It makes you a cop and you unwind the story...
Rhythm of the Relay. The realistic approach is often a sound-man's nightmare. Up to five men are needed to handle the 300-odd sound effects on each show. Webb's trickiest piece of realism came when the script called for a long-distance phone call from Los Angeles to Fountain Green, Utah. "We actually placed the call and recorded it. We got all the line clicks of the trunk lines, the rhythm of the operators as they moved the call from one relay point to another. You can't fake stuff like the authentic...