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...share of attention from press and public, were playing elsewhere (at Newport, R.I.*). The galleries at Manchester were small, but those on hand had plenty to see. The net impression: the reign of the two current tennis queens, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough (26) and U.S. Champion Margaret Osborne du Pont (31), is seriously threatened for the first time in three years...
Hardest hit were the networks, which have poured the most money into TV and reaped the least profit. This year CBS has made $500,000 less than it did in the first half of 1948. Du Mont's books have a reddish tinge and ABC, which can least afford it, is losing most of all. NBC does not release a balance sheet, but it is no exception. Of 76 TV stations in the U.S., only six claimed to be breaking even or making money. Manhattan's WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, dropped...
Although more than 100 manufacturers were making TV sets, 90% of the sales still went to the industry's Big Eight (Admiral, Crosley, Du Mont, Emerson, General Electric, Motorola, Philco and RCA). Last winter both big & small manufacturers were booming confidently ahead in the expectation that 1949 was going to be a 2,500,000-set year. This spring they crashed into a roadblock of buyer resistance. By last week, many of the smaller companies were hanging on by their fingernails...
...immaculately correct intonation for every funny line. With this bristling arsenal, Ethel puts starch into the feeblest jokes; her rowdy, slam-bang personality is nearly as full-bodied on the air as it was in such Broadway smashes a Annie Get Your Gun, Something for the Boys and Du Barry Was a Lady...
...midinettes, many of whom were members of the Communist-run General Confederation of Labor, were also supported by the Roman Catholic French Confederation of Christian Workers. They were striking for a raise of 15 francs (4½?) an hour. At an indignation meeting in the Bourse du Travail, a dark-haired Lanvin girl excitedly waved her pay envelope, showing 6,138 francs (about $18) for two weeks' work, and yelled: "I've got to support my mother with that!" Other girls showed mimeographed letters sent by their bosses warning them to return-or else. In front...