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Flying Actors. Hitchcock's fantasy-loosely based on a chilling novella by Daphne du Maurier-promises to be up to his exacting standards of blood and gore, and to accomplish its frightening turns he has plunged his own "teevee money" into the elaborately detailed production. He had 700 birds trapped and trained, and spent meticulous hours coaxing them to become flying actors...
...every detail of its operations from auto production to profit margins-has for 37 years kept G.M.'s profits moving up at a planned pace in relation to sales. (G.M. showed its last loss-$38.7 million-in 1921.) Only one other major U.S. corporation has such a record: Du Pont-whose planning and control system Donaldson Brown devised before he moved...
Topping off a week that, on the face of it. should have put Wall Street in a rosy glow was mounting evidence that corporate profits had set a first-quarter record in 1962. From corporations across the whole spectrum of industry came glittering reports. Du Font's first-quarter earnings were a record $2.23 a share v. $1.85 last year; Republic Steel's were 99? v. 37?. U.S. Rubber's 75? v. 68?. Standard Oil of California...
Madame Schwarzkopf, looking radiant and lovely in green silk, waited with queenly patience for the many latecomers who tramped in throughout the whole first section of the program, doing their best to mar the splendid repose of the opening song, Bach's Bist Du bei mir. Those who knew Madame Schwarzkopf's singing only from her recordings may have been a bit disappointed by the first two groups of songs, for her voice has not quite the purity and control of four or five years ago, and the acoustics of the HST seem bright and clear almost to a fault...
...encores, which Miss Schwarzkopf announced and (bless her!) translated: an exultant Ich hab' in Penna (a catalogue of lovers: one each in Penna, Maremma, Ancona, Viterbo, Casentino, and Magione; four in La Fratta, "und zehn in Castiglione," and a magnicently dramatic performance of the great Mignon ("Kennst du das land...