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Television, more and more, was getting into other people's business. NBC's American Inventory gave an upbeat plug to the stock market in a playlet about the joys of being a small investor, while on Youth Wants to Know. Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright (see BUSINESS) deplored the market's excesses. Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart got in the act by appearing on Walter Winchell's ABC telecast for the express purpose of asking Winchell some friendly questions about his broadcast stock tips. Unfortunately, the Senator began by answering questions instead of asking them...
...mystery tune" (usually something as well known as The Star-Spangled Banner) receives a coupon to buy "a $14 photograph" for $1. At the studio the prospect is pressured into buying a frame ($2.95 extra), tinting ($6 extra), and perhaps a whole set of pictures. In Chicago, bait advertisers plug a food-freezer plan. By buying in large quantities from a "co-op," the prospect supposedly saves enough to pay off the cost of a freezer. But, says Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The savings to the consumer through the food-freezer plans are no greater than...
Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall faced the television cameras, adjusted his glasses, and began reading a brief announcement. He stumbled over a familiar name, saying "Dwayt" instead of Dwight. Fortunately, someone kicked out the electric plug leading to the camera cable, and Hall had to start all over again. This time he got it right: the Republican Party has "the greatest leader of our times-Dwight D. Eisenhower." Presumably to renominate that leader, the G.O.P. will meet for four days, beginning Aug. 20, 1956, in San Francisco's 16,954-seat Cow Palace...
...Helen Keller, 74, whose senses have steadily quickened ever since she was struck blind, deaf and dumb in childhood, was guest of honor at a farewell banquet in Manhattan, where she received through her fingers the words of a greeting from Eleanor Roosevelt. In the Orient, Dr. Keller will plug for expanded facilities for the physically handicapped...
Watkins proceeded to put in a plug for something near to his heart: the billion-dollar power and reclamation project proposed for the Upper Colorado River Basin. There was, said Watkins, nothing socialistic about the idea; private utilities in the West were ready and eager to buy the power. Moreover, backing by the President would help refute some of the talk about the Administration's "giveaway" policy on natural resources. "That's a good idea," said Ike, turning to an assistant and giving the necessary order...