RCA Chieftain Sees Color TV Triumph Amid Obstacles
RCA chairman David Sarnoff, a longtime industry pioneer, declares color television unstoppable despite a hostile field. He cites a 1960s Milwaukee saturation test boosting weekly color set sales and notes RCA’s substantial investments while acknowledging a one- to two-year delay in color adoption due to entrenched interests.
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Radio Corp. of America
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co
Sarnoff
RCA
Milwaukee
Wake Forest Plans Night Classes
Wake Forest College announces evening classes with thirty one courses in the first year. An $45 000 Reynolds grant funds the program, with a faculty of 23 teaching two night class periods weekly. Registration Sept 11 12, classes start Sept 18, tuition 17 per semester hour and 51 per three hour course.
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Winston-Salem
Wake Forest College
Henrys. Stroupe
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
A. L. Aycock
Box
Winston-Steeters
Robbins Gets New Chicken Plant Creating Jobs in Moore County
Robbins welcomes a new poultry processing plant expected to employ about 200 workers, mainly women, with a weekly payroll of 10 000 to 12 000 dollars. The Moore County venture, built by Robbins Development Corp, cost around 125 000 dollars and targets local poultry needs within 30 miles. Plant manager H H Simpler and production head Jack Spivey, both local residents, anticipate daily processing around 6 000 birds.
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North Carolina
Athens
H. H. Simpler
Jack Spivey
Moore County
Robbins Development Corp
F. D. Allen
Thomas B.hopper
Robbins
Wayland Kennaly
Ees EP
East meets West at the Waldorf in New York
New York Confidential recounts a visit by Japan's Prime Minister Kishi to the Waldorf Astoria where Gen. Douglas MacArthur declined a meeting. The piece mixes society gossip with glimpses of celebrities and expatriate life in New York, noting social calls, fashion, and entertainment reflections.
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Waldorf
Neve
Japan
Kishi
Gen. MacArthur
Frank Matusmoto
Bush
MacArthur
Matsumoto
Sugamo
Orient
UNC Plans Therapy Program
UNC will offer the state’s first and only bachelor of science in physical therapy beginning this year. The four year course includes one summer of clinical work and can accept transfer students. 12 slots open first year for men and women. The program aims to train therapists for North Carolina communities and is endorsed by the state chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association.
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Chapel Hill
Theniversity of North Carolina
South
North Carolina
New Orleans
Virginia
UNC
American Physical Therapy Association
General Assembly of North Carolina
Margaret Moore
Memorial Hospital
William P. Richardson
UNC School of Medicine
General College
University
Council On Medical Education and Hospitals of the American
Saeeda Memorial Hospital
Solve A Crime Solution
Cullom won money at cards forcing Mrs. Cullom out as thief. Mrs. Cal Albers and husbands are cleared by card play and golf alibi. Mr Born had not met Mrs Albers, so she is eliminated. Therefore the thief is Mrs Born.
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Cullom
Puzzle of Leisure and Power Echoes in Idlewild to Manhattan
The passage laments social divides and stagnant reform, then shifts to Cold War critiques of Russia and treasuring U S patriotism. It credits J Edgar Hoover and Bob Taft for defending America, warning of fragile freedom and the need to protect it upon returning home from travel abroad.
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Russia
Stooges
Idlewild
Queens
Manhattan
Towers
J. Edgar Hoover
Bob Taft
America
The Hard Problem of Germany Today A Watcher on the Rhine
British journalist Brian Connell surveys postwar West Germany twelve years after defeat. He notes economic strength yet lingering moral gaps and a fragile democracy shaped by former Nazi industrialists, East West division, and Bonn’s unity aims.
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Morrow
Brian Connell
Germany
Connell
Rhine
Bonn
Rad Adenauer
West Germany
East Germany
Berlin
Europe
Marks
Bridge to the Sun to be published by UNC Press
The University of North Carolina Press will publish Gwen Terasaki’s Bridge to the Sun in September. It chronicles the marriage of a Tennessee woman and a Japanese diplomat, their wartime years, and the couple’s cross cultural journey from 1931 onward.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
Gwen Terasaki
Lambert Davis
UNC Press
Japan
The
University Press
Wirner Wells
Pacific
Gripsholm
Harry the Dirty Dog and Other Kids Books
Reading notes review several children titles from Harper and Brothers and Franklin Watts. Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion follows a white dog with black spots who dislikes baths and finds adventure hiding the scrubbing brush before returning home. The Shoes Fit for a King by Helen E Bill tells of two shoes seeking a royal fate. Fun with Figures by Mae and Ira Freeman explores geometry projects with photos. Growing and Changing by Samuel Exler discusses change in nature and daily life with examples from weather to building.
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Harry
Miss Bill
Juanita Cox
Educational TV Boosts Power at WTTW Chicago
WTTW Chicago increases television power from 56 000 watts to 278 000 watts expanding coverage to rival four commercial stations.
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Chicago
WTTW
Best Sellers List Highlights Fiction and Nonfiction
The weekly best sellers feature a mix of fiction and nonfi ction. Notable titles include Peyton Place by Grace Metallurgy, The Scapegoat by Daphne de Maurier, Compulsion by Meyer Levin, Silver Spoon by Edwin Gilbert, The Last Angry Man by Gerald Green, The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop, The Innocent Ambassador by Philip Wylie, The Turn of the Tide by Sir Arthur Bryant, The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, and The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme.
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Daphne de Maurier
Compulsion
Meyer Levin
Silver Spoon
Edwin Gilbert
the Last
Gerald Green
Christ
Jim Bishop
Philip Wylie
Sir Arthur Bryant
Vance Packard
Kathryn Hulme
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