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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...President's decision had the backing of General Douglas MacArthur (who holds that any military occupation outlives its usefulness after five years) as well as Republican Adviser John Foster Dulles who had been working on the treaty problem for the past four months. The U.S. would seek a peace treaty without economic or political restrictions or limits on Japan's rearmament for her own defense...
This week, with a new season about to begin, there were only 13 shows in Broadway's 30 playhouses, and all but one (Mike Todd's bosomy, bumptious Peep Show) were holdover hits from past seasons. During the summer, television networks had gobbled up three more legitimate theaters (making 16 to date). Production costs were skyrocket-high. Producers bemoaned the lack of new playwrights, and looked in vain for the open-handed angels of only a few years...
...past decade, such loutish antics have kept Truth or Consequences among the top-ranking radio shows. Last week, sponsored by Philip Morris, hearty, toupee-wearing M.C. Ralph Edwards moved his slapstick-and-bladder show onto television (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). "This is just the genesis, the little seed," he boasted of his first TV performance. "I have the feeling that, within the first half-dozen shows, we'll get into the top five TV programs...
...field. With a potential market of 55 million women over the age of 15, U.S. corset & brassiere makers now sell $400 million worth of goods a year, are heading even higher. Of the more than 350 companies in the industry, almost half have been started within the past ten years...
...Fortunate." Kostelanetz' masterly mixing of melody and schmalz is still paying off. Columbia Records, celebrating his tenth anniversary as their biggest and bestselling Masterworks artist, announced last month that the U.S. public has bought more than 20 million Kostelanetz_ records in the past decade. On Columbia lists he stands first, with more than 50 classical and popular albums catalogued under his name...