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...remember the frail, baby-faced crooner who used to prance through swarms of spangled chorines in pursuit of Ruby Keeler would have spotted Dick Powell as executive timber. But some 25 years later, as the grey-templed president of Four Star Television, Dick Powell has made himself a millionaire many times over. The current Dick Powell Show (NBC), a loosely strung "anthology series" with room for a wide variety of stars (sometimes including Powell himself) and material, has won steadily good reviews and the sort of ratings that turn admen respectful. Producer Powell has scored triumphs of surprise casting: Mickey...
...largest producers of network television programming in the industry," says Powell. "I won't be satisfied until we're the biggest-and we will be." Starting out with the old Four Star Playhouse and later booming with the five-year run of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, the company has been all over TV, with as many as 13 series running at one time...
...slacks, Spivey has raised faculty salaries, doubled scholarships, banished Sunday reveille and the pseudo-military titles (for example, "captain" for assistant instructor) that cadets formerly used to address their teachers. He even did away with marching to classes, but so far has kept the student uniform (royal blue jacket, grey trousers) as standard campus dress...
...notion sounds funny: to explore the antics of a special tribe of New Yorkers who shun the workaday rat race by turning into moles. They doze at Grand Central, sleep on subways, and even rest in the Egyptian sarcophagi at the Metropolitan Museum. They are not exactly bums, but grey flannel grifters who sponge off friends, walk dogs, and ring Christmas bells as charity Santas...
...reader of the U.S. Government's good, grey statistics knows, 1947-49 equals 100. But last week the Budget Bureau announced that in January it plans to change the base period for a wide range of indices-most notably the Consumer Price Index-to 1957-59. According to the bureau, indicators lose meaning unless they are based on a period recent enough for most people to remember...