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...Guns of Navarone (Highroad; Columbia), a World War II military exercise of the those-poor-devils-haven't-got-a-chance school, is the most enjoyable consignment of baloney in months. The mission that cannot be pulled off is the spiking of two enormous German guns before a lost British battalion can be evacuated from an Aegean island. The man who can pull it off is Gregory Peck. "Why me?" asks Peck, his deer's eyes regarding his gruff, lovable old commander (James Robertson Justice) with reproach. "Well," the G.L.O.C. answers reasonably, "you speak German like a German...
...country. Americans have a genius to believe morality only deals with sex. But when kids, turned into walking pitchmen by commercials that mix jingles with nursery rhymes, find out commercials are untrue, which they usually are, they come to think anything that comes out of that box is baloney-even the President...
...problems, he has found armistice, if not peace. Jonathan Rebeck sees and talks with ghosts, but his only live companion is a truculent raven who steals food for him, and whose conversation runs more to "The hell you say" than "Nevermore." As the book opens, Rebeck is gnawing a baloney the raven has liberated ("Damn near ruptured myself," the bird complains), but his meal is disturbed by a funeral procession. When the mourners have left and the newest ghost has learned to free himself from his coffin, Rebeck explains to him what he knows of being dead. A ghost cannot...
Irate Stockholders. But it was a dark day for Douglas Aircraft's Donald Douglas Sr., who had to suffer through a 2½-hour meeting and shouts of "baloney" after announcing "an extremely disappointing" $6,949,002 loss for the quarter, due mostly to extra-heavy development expenses on the DC-8 jetliner program. At Columbia Broadcasting System, Chairman William S. Paley had an unruly meeting on his hands, with irate stockholders complaining over lower earnings (slightly less than 1959's 87? for the first quarter), the payola TV scandals and a handful of other problems. Said Chairman...
...assets ratio ranked 27th among the nation's 41 key industries. The "obvious" solution to wage-push inflation, said Steelman Adams, is to restrict "the growing labor monopoly power, even as other monopoly powers, which have threatened our welfare, have been restricted." Snapped an aroused Dave McDonald: "Baloney...