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...meanwhile emerged as a third major network, and it was competitively necessary to match its frank and potent mediocrities. What really bothered the NBC brass was not Crosby's charge of mediocrity but his suggestion that the network is not making money. As part of the parent RCA, NBC's profit-loss figures are never released, but management insisted that NBC as a whole is doing better financially than ever...
Newspapers constantly relay the rejoicings of the sweepstakes winner and the parent whose kidnaped child has been found alive. And LIFE once photographed that rare dawning in which a young girl first realizes that she will be beautiful...
...quest for a new personality better reflected than in the city's two newspapers: the morning Virginian-Pilot and the afternoon Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star (which is in fact one paper, with separate editions for Norfolk and neighboring Portsmouth). Although both are owned by the parent Ledger-Dispatch Corp., the papers are fiercely competitive in their search for the news and often differ editorially on some of the South's most basic problems...
...wrong with our school system," said the board member. "We're not rewarding academic achievement. We're rewarding the best 'wellrounded' samplers." But other board members seemed content to leave the problem to a committee, which took it up several months ago after one parent complained. The committee has not been heard from since...
Died. J. Edward King, 56, longtime general manager of TIME Inc.'s subscription service division in Chicago and a vice president of the parent corporation since 1954, who in 1946 helped supervise the first changeover from manual to mechanical subscription handling in the publishing field and the development of subsequent electronic speedups in tabulation and mailing operations covering 11 million subscribers; of a heart attack; in Hinsdale...