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...major networks? "I struggled with my conscience for 48 hours before giving my decision," says Crosby. "I am going to continue my column just as before, and CBS is fully aware that they will still get scathing criticism from me. In fact, I am afraid I will lean over backward and belt the hell out of CBS-that is the real problem." He expects no gripes from other networks. CBS TV Program Director Hubbell Robinson thinks that Crosby "is a man of sufficient integrity to handle both jobs very well." The Herald Tribune, which Crosby did not consult about...
...Crosby hoped. Said one official: "A terrible mistake. This is the kind of thing that makes criticism suspect. Any time he pans a show on NBC or ABC, somebody is sure to say: 'What do you expect, he's on the CBS payroll.' And bending over backward isn't a proper posture for a critic either...
...Elgar is now in the shadows. The colder airs of Benjamin Britten rule Britannia- so much so that critics are taking pains to point out that Elgar, after all, was a skilled and inventive composer who opened a whole new musical tradition for his musically backward country...
Rush to the Future. In a babel of 300 or more languages and dialects ranging from the clipped accents of the Oxford graduate to the grunts and tongue-clicks of the most backward Bantu tribesman, the 130 million-odd natives of Middle Africa are demanding a voice in the determination of their own future-and getting it at a pace that would have been thought absurd and impossible a generation...
...meet the shortage, the Ford Mo tor Co. fortnight ago dropped age limits for its on-the-job training classes, opened them to all employees who meet the aptitude requirements. Other industries in many areas are making a direct attack on the idea that only the backward go into vocational training. In Cleveland the big machine-tool makers rush the high-school graduating classes for candidates for their training programs with all the fervor used for seniors in engineering colleges. In Fort Worth Convair hires high-school graduates to work half a day and spend the other half, with...