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Dave Stephens' determination to run up track records drives even his wife into a state of healthful exhaustion. Until recently, he got up at 4:45 a.m. every weekday, tossed off a lemonade and studied an hour for a correspondence-course physical-education degree. Then he woke his wife Beverly, hustled her into running togs and took her off to Malvern Oval for some companionable jogging and wind sprints. After breakfast, Dave hit the books again before he caught a train to his $14.50-a-week job as a delivery boy. Now Dave is a $47-a-week milkman...
...three dailies-the Detroit Free Press, News and Times-were strikebound. The stereotypers' union had closed the papers over demands that included a full day's pay for any extra work after eight hours, e.g., for turning out Sunday Edition color plates after hours on a weekday. Newsmagazine sales had gone up 30%; out-of-town newspapers were being sold for as much as $1 a copy...
...five first-stringers who play the weekday "A" League matches in the Boston Squash League plus the next four men on the varsity ladder will make up the squad in the same order as in the Navy match last Saturday...
...Weekday is the name of Weaver's new woman's home companion. A variation of Monitor, NBC's weekend guide to fun and frolic, Weekday bounces around all day long (10:156 p.m.), five days a week (Mon.-Fri.). Its appeal to housewives, mothers, matrons and maids is contained in the show's opening lines: "Don't stop! Don't look! Listen...
...Weekday is short of being the most, but it is brisk, friendly and a lot freer and livelier than the old-style radio show with its predestined hourly, half-hourly and quarter-hourly breaks. It remains to be seen whether it will capture and hold the vast daytime, weekday audience of American women...