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...Need for Hacks. As the realization grows in TV circles that an inferior script means an inferior show, despite stars and lavish production, the prices for quality plays are gradually spiraling upward. Next season quality writers will get as much as $2,000 for a half-hour script (22 minutes minus commercials and credits) and up to $6,000 for a one-hour script (44 minutes). Some writers are already making $30,000 and $40,000 a year on their TV work alone. When Hollywood snaps up a TV script, the writer's income soars...
Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey noted one reason for the deficit: last year's $7.4 billion tax cut. Humphrey & Co. were still optimistic. With federal spending on the way down and national income booming upward, the Treasury men hope that the budget will balance on next June...
...Francisco Goya died of the infection that deafened him at 47, he would be remembered only as a Spanish court painter with a knack for candid likenesses. But the tortuous, stone-silent path he entered in middle age led steeply upward, and he clambered gloomily to greatness. The blackest and harshest of the old masters, Goya made bitterness a virtue and found pessimism a fountain of youth. A big traveling show of Goya drawings, on display this week in San Francisco, proves once again how great his final achievement...
Among women, there were fractional bobbles in the rates from 1949 to 1952, and the overall rates for cancer of the lung (including trachea and bronchi) were markedly lower than in men. But generally the rate of respiratory cancer among women also trended upward...
...Stocks on the New York Stock Exchange burst through to new peaks as the Bull Market continued its upward surge. The Dow-Jones industrial average (30 stocks) pushed up 9 points last week to close out trading at 437.72, a 32-point gain since Jan. 3. On the New York Times composite average of 50 leading industrial and railroad stocks, the week's final reading broke through to 300.57, the highest closing since Sept...