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...this has made it necessary for maestro Harlow to shift Captain Frannie Lee to tailback, leaving the wingback post open to Gordy Lyle and Greely Summers. Summers saw action again yesterday, a slight injury having kept him on the sidelines for a few days previous...
...about a saxophone-playing, airplane-flying, life-loving "pug" who is killed fifty years too soon. Mr. Jordan, the big boss in the Beyond, spends the remainder of the picture trying to right this unfortunate shift. Such a plot could easily have been overdone or underdone. As it is, the dish is juicily prepared, spiced with adventure, salted with philosophy, and served up with a humorous flourish...
...frown. WFBR and WCAE had been Red network stations and chose to go Mutual rather than be put in the Blue package. Besides its acquisitions in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, Mutual will also take over next fortnight Buffalo's WGR, a CBS outlet, which decided to shift allegiance when its sister station WKBW moved to CBS. Next year Mutual will absorb three more NBC stations...
...month 31,566,000 U.S. citizens, big & small, go to school-160,000 fewer than last year. Despite this record decline in total school population (resulting from the declining birth rate), school officials in Washington last week bemoaned the worst overcrowding of schools in U.S. history. Reason: a major shift of the population to defense-production centers...
...purpose of the Plans was defensive -to shift Russia's center of gravity to the hinterland-and official statistics now put 33% of Russia's coal, power, iron, 80% of her copper production east of the Urals. But how well the Five-Year Plans have succeeded otherwise no one outside of Russia and few inside know. Doubtless the center of gravity has not yet shifted as far as Russian leaders wish...