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Remotes & Repeats. Heller could point to some fat facts & figures to justify his claim. TvA has already proved powerful enough to extract an estimated $8,000,000 in additional yearly wages from the networks. A closely-printed, 16-page code goes exhaustively into conditions of work, hours of rehearsal, rates of pay ($170 minimum for an hour-long show plus 22 hours of rehearsal), and such esoteric specialties as doubling, warmups, remotes, live repeats and after-shows. Heller is particularly proud of a clause which guarantees all performers their full original fee if a kinescope of a show is ever...
...moralist Tobey struggle with "Greasy Thumb" Gusik entertains the public and attracts a large audience, but this is not the purpose of such an investigation. These hearing are held to get the facts--impartially, fairly, and with a minimum of showmanship. Until Congress can settle on a Fair Practices Code for these investigations, they should not be televised...
...telephone company, that in 1945 Costello asked him to check his telephone. Two or three times a week for about three months, he checked Costello's phone, and Costello handed him $50 or $100 when he saw him outside the Waldorf-Astoria barbershop. He had arranged a code with Costello. When Costello's line was tapped, "I would call him at his apartment and just say, 'This is Jim, everything isn't well,' or words to that effect." When it was not tapped, "I would say, 'Jim, I am feeling fine today...
...only a highball to pose as a gentleman of distinction; pudgy Bookmaker Frank Erickson, who never got beyond the fourth grade ("I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might intend to criminate me"); Water Commissioner James J. Moran, a granite-jawed Irishman clearly following some elaborate, personal code of honor that the common run of mankind would never comprehend; and the virulent clash of words and wills between New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer and Senator Charles Tobey...
...suspect that the Turk had ridden as far as he could on the road of conquest, and that it was time to squat on the carpet of diplomacy and consolidate the great adventure into a great state. Accordingly, the Sultan struck alliances with France and Venice, reorganized the legal code, expanded the educational system, opened his borders to European immigration, and announced the pax Turcica...