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...backing Australia's plea for route that will permit it to pick up London-bound passengers in either city so that much of its Australia-Europe traffic can be rerouted from explosive Middle East to U.S. Australia in return will grant rights which U.S. lines call almost worthless, e.g., permission to use it as base on flights to and from Southeast Asia, South Africa, South America (via South Pole...
...standing committee might profitably survey the area. But if a committee were created, it would probably include many members of the language departments who now must bear the responsibility for the low quality of instruction given in so many modern languages. This instruction helps make the language requirement worthless...
...Lode. Louise's luck was phenomenal. She got to the freewheeling West when her father, after serving in the Mexican War, settled in tiny Downieville, Calif., where his earnings went into worthless mining stocks. Louise, her mother and grandmother joined him after a journey of 5,000 miles by boat and muleback. At 16, pretty, dark-haired Louise made a disastrous marriage to a local doctor who was as calamitous a speculator as her father. When he was found dying at Poverty Hill, Calif., riddled by drugs and alcohol, 22-year-old Louise was left penniless with a crippled...
Until he landed in prison on a two-to three-year rap for passing a bad check, John Corpier, 32, thought of himself as "a pretty worthless fellow." The son of a Texas dirt farmer, he left school after the eighth grade, worked at a prewar Civilian Conservation Corps camp until he joined the Air Force at 17. Though he made a respectable war record as a B-17 waist gunner in Europe, he never seemed able to settle down once he had left the service. He worked at radio and TV repair jobs in Alaska, Seattle and Palo Alto...
Ratings are also worthless as a guide to what the sponsor is really after: sales. I Lone Lucy was riding high when it was dropped by Philip Morris; it was evidently not paying off at the cigarette counter. Though virtually all automobile sales fell in 1956, high-rated Ed Sullivan's sponsor Mercury suffered a bigger decline than most. (Adman's rebuttal: Who knows how badly sales might have fared without Sullivan?) Arthur Godfrey argues that sponsors ought to judge shows by how the product is moving. But, say admen, most products are affected by too many variables...