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Reider just lapped up the course, much as he did against Dartmouth last week. But this time there was no Doug Brew to knock him out of the winning position in the last hundred yards. When the speedy dark-haired little sophomore decided to put on the steam there was no one to stop him; he just ran away...
Rodgers & Hammerstein premeditated their killing carefully, and the screen version of Oklahoma!, which cost $12 million to make and distribute, seems sure to knock 'em dead in numbers perhaps without precedent-some observers are already predicting a $75 million gross. At least on the billboards, this dollarpalooza has everything that the Broadway musical had, along with Eastman Color, famous names, and a technique called Todd-AO-a brand-new, giant-screen process all its own. Oklahoma! will run at advanced prices (from $1.50 to $3.50) in 50 cities from coast to coast before it is distributed through regular channels...
...feeling shared by many of the largest U.S. companies last week. Ford Motor Co. brought out its new $10,000 Continental (see Autos), and announced that it will spend a thumping $500 million for expansion next year. Opening a new car and truck assembly plant at Mahwah, NJ. ("To knock the socks off competition"), Henry Ford said the company would build a new Mercury assembly plant in Los Angeles, expand research centers for autos and farm implements, build another chassis plant in Michigan...
...ectasy of mediocrity. Whatever the others did, I did... To survive we must become happy nothings." Hingham has to work and behave centrally, for this is the life of Centralism: "Everytime you wash your car it always rains, if that's the general story. Throw salt over your shoulder. Knock on wood...
...could feel it breathing as I hustled to bat," he recalls, "or maybe it was smothering from inhaling dandruff." Anyway, Casey walked to the batter's box brandishing five bats as if he were going to knock down the ballpark. The stands booed. Casey stepped to the plate, waited until the pitcher was about to throw, then called time. Elaborately he went through the motions of getting a cinder out of his eye. The Brooklyn stands roared with fury...