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Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse are two capable workmen who have turned out a number of successful farce comedies; "State of the Union," and "Life With Father" are two of their most famous...
...Workmen digging drains in the village of Buxiéres-les-Froncles, a hundred-odd miles from Paris, last week uncovered the bones of five men, each with his skull cracked, each wrapped in the shreds of a long-outmoded uniform. The mayor, the local schoolteacher and five policemen investigated the strange discovery, got a thorough explanation from the village's oldest inhabitant, 91-year-old Emilie Guillaumot. Her story...
Last week workmen were tightening bolts on the last of 107 steel and concrete towers, spaced approximately 30 miles apart, that will carry television from coast to coast. Started three years ago by American Telephone & Telegraph, the $40 million New York-to-San Francisco microwave relay project* will be fully completed next month-just in time to carry this year's World Series games to the biggest audience in baseball's history...
...rejected such thinking. Last week it announced a potentially revolutionary program to provide guns as well as butter by doubling European productivity. Details : ECA, which has so far done business with governments, will start passing out "production assistance" direct to managers and workmen. Each beneficiary nation will set up regional councils of labor, management, government and ECA. Experts will explain U.S. production methods to trade unionists. Go-ahead European companies will be "adopted" by U.S. firms willing to share their knowledge...
That was the last the law saw of Matt Jones. One night last week, railroad workmen near Lexington, Mo., 50 miles east of Kansas City, found Matt's body bobbing on the swollen Missouri River, a 9-lb. tire chain wrapped tightly around his ankles and threaded through a 45-lb. concrete building block. Al Osborne's lawyer, on hearing the news, averred that Jones's death was "detrimental to my client." But the county prosecutor didn't seem to think so. Without Matt's testimony, the three remaining charges against Al Osborne would probably...