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...newspaper business . . ." Journalist Grant's devotion to the news had brought handsome returns. Last week Media Records reported that the evening Journal (circ. 325,039), led all U.S. newspapers in advertising linage for the first eight months of 1950. Though published in the nation's 13th city (pop. 632,938), the Journal was ahead of the second-place Chicago Tribune by 750,000 lines. Last year the Journal took in $20 million and made $2,000,000 after taxes...
Since the war, Italy has been proud of its bumper crop of novelists, painters and sculptors. Considering the lively output,* Italians have a right to be. Last week, as a high point in Venice's 13th International Festival of Contemporary Music, Italians listened with expectation to the latest work of three of Italy's younger generation of composers. If festivalgoers thought they would find any one strong new current, they were disappointed. The so-called "Roman Group" in modern Italian music seemed to have as many directions as it had composers...
...Black Rose (20th Century-Fox] shows how Tyrone Power brought the magnetic compass, the art of papermaking and the secret of gunpowder from far-off Cathay to 13th Century England. Based on Thomas B. Costain's lush historical novel, the film bristles with research, Technicolor, 5,600 extras (not counting 500 horses and 1,000 camels), the English countryside and sun-scorched vistas of Asian deserts. On this broad canvas, however, Scripter Talbot Jennings traces a curiously skimpy design...
During the first six months of 1950, when the rest of the auto industry enjoyed the greatest boom in its history, Packard managed to lose $736,682. While total auto production went up 30%, Packard's dropped 20%. The company's sales had slipped from 13th to 14th place among U.S. cars, just ahead of the DeSoto and Kaiser...
...confused with France's St. Teresa of Lisieux (1873-97) or Portugal's 13th Century St. Teresa, daughter of King Sancho...