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Inured to stranger ones, Art Baker and his staff of 8 scarcely gave it a second thought. In their six months of operating You Asked for It (broadcast from Los Angeles' KTTV, fed to the nation a week later by Du Mont from New York), they have already shown, in response to requests: a one-armed paper hanger in action, a man fighting a bear, another wrestling an alligator, a boxer fighting a wrestler, a 600-lb. cowboy mounted on a luckless nag, a close-up of a lady swallowing swords, a swallower of goldfish, a Hopi Indian rain...
...week on its regular channel, RCA also showed TV set owners that its system is compatible, i.e., it could receive the broadcasts in black & white. (RCA can also convert existing sets to color.) The new tube's performance was so impressive that such TV competitors as Allen B. Du Mont, who has opposed any form of color up till now, changed their minds. Said Du Mont: "The RCA picture was good enough to start commercial programs immediately...
...share in four of the five Wimbledon titles by winning three herself. In her fifth try, Doris won the women's title by whipping her pal Shirley Fry, 6-1, 6-0. The Misses Hart and Fry then beat the veteran doubles pair of Mrs. Margaret Osborne du Pont and Louise Brough, four-time Wimbledon champions, 6-3, 13-11. Doris and Australia's Frank Sedgmari won the mixed-doubles title, 7-5, 6-2, from the Australian team of Mervyn Rose and Mrs. Nancye Wynne Bolton. Sedgman and McGregor successfully defended their title by downing Drobny...
...Brunswick's famed Restigouche River, the Atlantic salmon are not only king-size (up to 48 Ibs.), but the sport of hooking them takes a regal bankroll. Fishing leases cost up to $25,000 a year for the exclusive Restigouche clubs, where rosters are studded with names like Du Pont, Vanderbilt and Whitney. Even in the limited government waters, the fee is $40 a rod per day, and only 70 permits are issued each year...
...Quartermaster touched off the market break when he stopped stockpiling wool for uniforms. The Australians, are also faced with a new threat to high wool prices. Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson said that the Government might promote a big synthetic-wool industry by granting tax advantages for expansion to Du Pont (Dacron), Union Carbide & Carbon (Dynel) and other makers of wool substitutes. Such a program could eventually make the Merino sheep as obsolete as the Japanese silkworm...