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...rarity-a song-and-dance movie with enough plot to justify its dialogue and enough needling satire to make some points. Fair Weather's good fellows who get together are Gene Kelly (also, with Stanley Donen, the film's co-director and co-dancemaster), Dan Dailey and feather-footed Michael Kidd, the dancer and choreographer, in his first film role. Returning to the U.S. when World War II ends, the three army pals, mutually jittery about the prospects of renewed civilian life, ricochet up and down Manhattan's sleazy Third Avenue in one of the most ably...
...magic. Mozart's mystical fantasy of free masonry unfolded among three Egyptian temple arches of flesh-pink, violet, cerulean blue, turquoise, cobalt and yellow. The middle arch was framed by black sketches of symbolic heads, and its opening revealed projected landscapes. Papageno was dressed in a brilliant green feather coat, brick-red vest and yellow trousers, while the chorus of priests appeared in explosive shades of orange...
...certainly not nice like they used to be," and nags her son's vacationing family into driving off on a side road. Instead of finding the six-columned mansion she insists she remembers, they run into three escaped convicts who rob and shoot the lot, the babbling old feather-wit last of all. Good Country People looses Mrs.Hopewell, who "had no bad qualities of her own but . . . was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack." When she invites a young, Bible-peddling wool-hat to supper, he winds...
...Phillips Brooks House Association, Red Feather, Student Jewish Appeal, National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, and the American Friends Service Committee, in that order, received the largest shares of allocated funds...
...president and chairman of General Dynamics Corp., 61-year-old John Jay Hopkins wears many hats, and a feather in almost every one. When he took over eight years ago, the company-then known as Electric Boat-was coasting along with an annual sales volume of $26.9 million, mostly in submarines. Since then, he has picked up aircraftmakers Canadair Ltd. in Canada and giant Consolidated Vultee, changed the company name, expanded into guided missiles, atomic research and atomic submarines (the U.S.S. Nautilus), and boosted volume 25-fold (to $649 million last year). Last week Jay Hopkins put another feather...