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Under the great gold-and-brown murals of Geneva's Salle du Conseil, where the Heads of State met three months before, the Big Four foreign ministers met and talked in the polite tones suitable to the spirit of Geneva. Their voices echoed coldly in empty galleries. Outside the hall, delegations from both Germanys circled restlessly...
...Paris moviegoers were flocking to see Marty after critics raved that at last Hollywood was showing the fascinating spectacle of an authentic U.S. working-class milieu. But there were some dissenting opinions. Wrote the critic of the longhair Cahiers du Cinema: "In its attempt at neorealism, Marty reveals what daily life is like for the relatively prosperous working-class American . . . I was terrified. This 'American Way of Life' seemed like a foretaste of hell...
...Du Pont. In chemicals and mining, Union Carbide, Du Pont and National Gypsum all reported banner sales and earnings. At Union Carbide, President Morse G. Dial listed alltime record sales of $857 million, record earnings of $101 million for the first nine months, 60% higher than 1954. Du Pont hit new peaks with sales of $1.4 billion, earnings of $6.24 a share at the three-quarter mark v. $4.74 last year. In the booming electronics industry, civilian sales were so good that General Electric President Ralph J. Cordiner could announce the second-best year in history thus far-sales...
...required Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to pretend that he was madly in love with her (a role often filled last year by Actor Cesar Romero). Jackie Gleason is back with The Honeymooners, but the show is now filmed by the Electronicam method, which Gleason and the system's inventors (Du Mont) insist is just as good as live TV, from the evidence of the first two shows, not all of Gleason's audience will agree: on film, the battles between Jackie and Audrey Meadows seemed longer and less funny, while Art Carney's sewer-born impetuosities have lost...
...Amazon trip, "I Starved with the World's Most Primitive Tribe." The magazine's lavish color pages, planned by Art Editor Albert Gilou, sometimes achieve the lustrous clarity of a Flemish painting, are equaled by only one other publication in Europe: Switzerland's sophisticated Du...