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...rights to the play, after six months of work on this point. As Managing-Directors so rarely receive the limelight which is the happier lot of their actors, I have taken it upon myself to see that recognition for this theatrical coup be assigned where it rightly belongs. Wendell Weston, Group 20 Players of Mass...
...manufacturers, big and small, poured in, chiefly to make products-pens, radios, brassieres, baby shoes-that needed a good deal of hand work and could be transported cheaply. Hastening to the island came Paper-Mate, General Electric, Maidenform, B.V.D., Consolidated Cigar, Weston, Union Carbide, Parke, Davis & Co., Remington Rand, Bostitch and others (see map). Last week the 667th factory-a cutlery plant in Gurabo -went into production. For the catalytic $40 million in loans, plant construction and promotion, Fomento got the island $275 million in investment, 80,000 new jobs. Like the moving needles on the instrument board...
Dave Beady won his match with Weston Country Club Champion Jim Fay, 3-2. Frank Dodge, playing his best golf so far this season, shot a very good 76, winning 5-4. In number six, Bill Rose lost a very close match, one down. Bottom man Bob David...
Died. Edward Weston, 71, painstaking camera craftsman, one of the world's topflight creative photographers; of Parkinson's disease; in Carmel Highlands, Calif. At 37, Weston abandoned his Los Angeles portrait studio, moved to Mexico where he worked with Painters Diego Rivera and José Orozco, in 1926 returned to California, began a series of precise, sharply composed nature studies that made him famous, won (in 1937) the first Guggenheim fellowship ever given to a photographer. Weston used little equipment, almost never retouched or cropped his clear, spare negatives, cautiously refused until 1947 to use color film...
...discerning ears it was soon clear that Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were too gruesome to be real. One West Coast listener thought they were "an old couple obviously trying to make a comeback"; another insisted they were Margaret and Harry Truman. Their real identity: Orchestra Leader Paul Weston and his wife, Singer Jo Stafford. Paul and Jo have been burlesquing other pop performers at parties for years, decided to record the gag after Columbia executives heard Weston's act at a sales convention (Columbia A & R Man George Avakian picked the name Jonathan Edwards, after the fiery Colonial preacher...