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...hour dominated the television week. On Sunday night at 8, Comedian Steve (Tonight) Allen opened the latest phase of NBC's attack against CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show (TIME, June 25). NBC's ambitious objective: to grab Sullivan's audience, consistently rated the biggest or second biggest audience of any TV show...
...owes them about $1.1 million in arrears and interest. This fall a revenooer will journey to Switzerland for an unfriendly chat with Charlie. But the mission seems doomed to fail; unless Chaplin antes up the debt voluntarily (most unlikely), there is little of his left in the U.S. to grab besides some old derbies, canes and turned-up brogans...
...shares of Bellanca, then a corporate shell which had some aircraft-parts contracts. Thus, he got a listing on the American Stock Exchange, and a ready market for stock. Albert promptly bought or traded into major interests in a grab bag of some 70 companies, including control of Waltham Watch Co. and Pierce Governor, of which he became chairman...
...Communists piled on enormous claims for back wages, charged fantastic tax assessments, added on phony claims for payment of insurance debts actually paid years before to the Nationalists. Starr's land company lost all its undeveloped land to nationalization, was stripped of 200 rented houses in one grab on the pretext that the titles were invalid. As business foundered, each dismissed employee had to be paid off in U.S. dollars; once Manager Miner was jailed for ten days when U.S. currency restrictions held up the necessary cash. To top it off, the Communists calculated interest on unpaid claims...
...Pirates' First Baseman Dale Long came to bat in a game with the Phillies, he missed a home run by inches; his long drive to right bounced off the barrier for a double. In two more tries, Long belted two more shots that Philly outfielders just managed to grab. Then he got the range. In the eighth inning, he walloped the ball a country mile for his seventh home run in seven consecutive games, a major-league record that broke the six-game mark held by the St. Louis Browns' Ken Williams, the Giants' "Long George" Kelly...