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Curtain Lifter. Movieman Eric Johnston got Hollywood's foot under the Iron Curtain. He made a deal with Russia, where almost no U.S. films are shown, to let in up to 20 films a year, pay for them with dollars in New York. Johnston hoped to close a similar deal with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
...Commerce, oldest (121 years) U.S. business paper and the only New York daily still living on historic Park Row (in the old Pulitzer Building), did neither. Along with 24 other editorial and ad staffers, curly-haired Editor & Publisher Bernard J. Ridder, 35, and his 30-year-old brother Eric, general manager, sat down at the linotype machines and set the type themselves. (They had once been linotype operators as part of their journalistic training...
...opening rounds, Forest Hills fans rooted loudly for every young face. Talbert was the first of the Three Old Men to go; he lost to Eric Sturgess, 28, a smooth stylist from South Africa who was making his first trip to the U.S. Next day young (19) Herbie Flam of the University of California at Los Angeles stroked Mulloy's head...
...interviewed Greek guerrilla General Markos in his Grammos Mountain stronghold. This week, after sitting on it for more than a fortnight (presumably to avoid competing with convention news), the Trib ran his interview as a four-part series. It tingled with some of the cloak-&-dagger thrills of an Eric Ambler novel...
Lobster on Niki Street. The CBS story had all the drama and color of an Eric Ambler mystery. Tall, blond George Polk, whose pull-no-punches broadcasts had angered the Greek government,† had been trying to reach the hideout headquarters of Leftist General Markos to get the guerrilla side of the story. His "contact man" was apparently an Athens flower vendor, who visited Polk daily for ten days before his death-but in the treacherous climate of Athens, Polk had no way of making sure whether he was dealing with Right or Left...