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...possibly be classed as factual reporting. You gave the mischievous impression that I slyly maneuvered the Legion into placing that film in the "C" or condemned classification for the sake of box-office stimulation, when you said that I "guessed, correctly, that Legion disapproval would whet public pruriency and boost attendance." Your guess as to my guess was completely wrong as to the facts. Let me state these facts...
...blessing of New Hampshire's peppery Senator Charles W. Tobey. Ike's blessing was not legally required. The eight New Hampshire delegates would cut little ice at the Republican convention, but a smashing victory in this primary, the nation's first, would be a big boost to any man's chances for the nomination...
...DiMaggio, baseball's most talented star, haggled with his bosses for $75,000 and signed on the dotted line for about $10,000 less than that. Last year, he struggled along on $43,750. The pay boost made DiMag the fanciest-salaried New York Yankee since Babe Ruth (who once drew $80,000) and put him in a class with baseball's two rich kids: Ted Williams, whose big bat is worth $75,000 a year to the Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland's $80,000-or-more-a-year pitcher, Bob Feller...
First, the Weather Bureau's research budget (now a skimpy $200,000 a year) needed a hefty boost. With about $10 million, Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer figured that the bureau could give storm and snow clouds a deeper plumbing, learn a lot more about the mysteries of the upper air, and develop advanced radar storm detectors. The bureau also needed an electronic computer that would allow its statisticians to give more time to careful analyses of weather data. With such new knowledge and mechanical aids, Reichelderfer felt certain that the bureau's predictions would be nearer...
Last Tuesday's announcement by the Schlitz Brewery of Milwaukee of a price boost of two or three cents on each quart of beer will soon be followed by Blatz and also all eastern breweries, such as Narragansett, Harvard. Bowdoin, Ballentine, Ruppert...