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...protect small U.S. producers. Flemming's suggestion: the oil companies should get together and work out an industry plan to restrict imports. The oil companies, which have had more than their share of antitrust suits, were not eager to work out any scheme that would, in effect, slice up a market between them. Furthermore, they do not agree with Flemming that imports have reached a dangerous level...
...Another Slice of Pizza. In Hoboken, in a coldwater flat ("one can to four families"). Frank was born on Dec. 12, 1915. He weighed 13½ lbs. at birth, and in the delivery his head was badly ripped by the forceps, and one of his ear lobes was torn away; he carries the scars to this day. The doctor laid the unbreathing baby on the bed. thinking him stillborn, and turned to save the mother. Frank survived because his grandmother snatched him up and put him under the cold-water faucet...
Frankie's father, Martin Sinatra, was a run-of-the-gym boxer who fought under the name of "Marty O'Brien," a quiet little man who could stand up to a beer and mind his own business. Frankie's mother, "Dolly" Sinatra, was another slice of pizza altogether. That sturdy little woman could stand up to anything, come Hague or firewater, and minded everybody else's business along with plenty of her own. Dolly, who says she started out as a practical nurse, was soon helping Marty run a little barroom at the corner of Jefferson...
...itself a bigger slice of this audience, Manhattan's WRCA-TV, flagship of the NBC network, moved right into the boudoir last week with a silken five-minute sign-off spot called Count Sheep (weekdays, 1 a.m.). Its star is Nancy Berg, a 24-year-old, Wisconsin-born model, who floats onscreen in filmy lace, stretches her bare arms, yawns delicately, glances teasingly out of her cathode bedroom, pops into bed and out again for a moment's play with her French poodle...
FRENCH SHIPYARDS are cashing in on lower labor costs to carve away a big slice of the international shipbuilding market. Foreign orders for 1955's first half alone have hit 250,000 tons, some 114,000 tons more than all of 1954. Among the 13 nations that have ordered tankers and freighters from France: the U.S. (four tankers for Tide Water Associated Oil Co.), Britain, Holland and Norway, all traditional maritime powers that normally build their own ships...