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During the Victorian championships last week, Shields had every reason to congratulate himself on his counterploy. His pickup doubles team of veteran (30) Ted Schroeder and young (21) Tony Trabert was looking better than ever. A fortnight ago, the U.S. pair was within a game of beating the invincible Aussie combination of Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, U.S. and Wimbledon champions. Last week at Melbourne, with the top Aussies separated in a Gamesmanlike experiment by Hopman, Schroeder and Trabert breezed to the title in straight sets...
...other signs pointed upward. Purchasing agents found that the pickup in orders, which started in September, was continuing. Auto sales have recently been running ahead of production, and the industry expects output to fall far behind sales next month. TV and appliance sales are also pulling out of their summer slump. Department-store sales, said the Federal Reserve Board, jumped 10% over the 1950 level in the latest weekly figures, the biggest rise in six months. And the biggest spending of the arms program-and greatest civilian cuts-is yet to come...
...Pickup. In his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker, Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious drama about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME...
...Pickup. In his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker. Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious drama about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME...
...Pickup. In his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker, Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious drama about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME...