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...Hollywood was now almost knee-deep in TV. Warner Brothers closed a $1,000,000 deal (contingent on the FCC's sanction) with New York Post Publisher Dorothy Thackrey to buy her two West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...
...five years since Drew became Ontario's Premier, his wife has been knee-deep in politics. At the same time she is not too busy to keep an eye on her two children, Sandra, 8, and Edward, 10. During last fortnight's tour she called home every night to check on them, was constantly picking up little souvenirs to take them. "I feel as if I'm working 26 hours a day," she said. "But I like it, you know...
...Then, at 10:30, Career Man Daniels, who has worked all over Latin America in 20 years of foreign service, hustled off to the Pan American Union to tackle his toughest assignment of the moment. As U.S. representative on the Inter-American Economic and Social Council, Daniels was soon knee-deep in planning for the Pan American Conference to be held at Bogo ta in January. On the council's work largely depends the success or failure, at least from the U.S. standpoint, of the Bogota get-together...
...CRIMSON is expected to field a squad knee-deep at every position and starring such gridiron greats as Crazy-legs Morgan, Crazy-legs Friedman, Crazylegs Bailey and Robert S. Leventhal...
Everybody had ideas. Ideas were so thick that Luckman's secretary, Miss Iona Thornton, said, "It was like being knee-deep in alligators. You never knew when one might reach out and bite...