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When television began to masquerade as the new electronic horizon, cynics pronounced radio dead, or at least moribund. The great names in radio-Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Red Skelton et al.-moved into view and their audiences followed them. For about five years radio played country cousin to TV. Then radio, in terms of listeners and earnings, began a spectacular comeback. Last week radio's listenership was up 8% over last year, 25% over its pre-TV peak in 1947. A record 140 million sets are in use v. 66 million at TV's dawn. Radio...
...when we find men as dedicated as Adams, do we enjoy heckling them off their shaky roost? If they would compare the salaries and gift lists of Harlow Curtice, Henry Ford II, et al., it would make Adams' list look pretty trivial...
...Burke views the House-revised defense reorganization bill from his own bridge, endorses two House changes sharply limiting the Defense Secretary's authority over the services-changes that Commander in Chief Eisenhower had rapped as a "legalized bottleneck" and an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism" (TIME. June 23 et...
...Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire dulled by sentiment, but all the same a good movie from a great novel; with Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
...Modern Art to spotlight some outstanding pieces of architecture worth saving. Examples were found in almost every section of the U.S., turned up in out-of-the-way places, took surprising forms (including a jail). Items: ¶ The East Front of the U.S. Capitol (TIME, June u, 1956 et seq.), the traditional backdrop for presidential inaugurations. Architects and historians (keep it as it is) are lined up against Speaker Sam Rayburn and the Congress' Commission for the Extension of the Capitol (remodel it). Current status: inactive, with Capitol Architect J. George Stewart authorized to begin alterations, but no contracts...