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WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian's crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being mere linoleum patterns, have been one of the most pervasive influences in 20th century design. With their novelty absorbed, his paintings are now being viewed in their own right, establishing Mondrian as one of art's great space organizers...
Island in the Sun (Darryl F. Zanuck; 20th Century-Fox), an unraveling of Alec Waugh's 1955 bestseller, is Moviemaker Zanuck's first lone-wolf production since he left Fox. This turbid plot-boiler clearly rates a special award as the sexiest West Indian travelogue ever made. The mating season is always in full swing on the throbbing Caribbean isle of Santa Marta, which doubtless boasts the highest imaginary birth rate of any 50-mile-long island under the sun. Island employs even the unsubtle cinema device of the screen-bottom exit, pointed up with gasps and romantic...
Former U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark, the court's lone all-out dissenter, criticized the majority opinion in unusually strong language. Government law-enforcement agencies, said he, might as well "close up shop, for the court has opened their files to the criminal and thus afforded him a Roman holiday for rummaging through confidential information as well as vital national secrets...
...Chief newcomer is a live vaudeville show on Saturdays called Popsicle Five Star Comedy Party, on which Ventriloquist Paul Winchell and Dummy Jerry Mahoney rotate with Oldtimers Ben Blue, Jerry Colonna, Olsen & Johnson. Fearless Wyatt Earp, Cheyenne and The Lone Ranger will continue to defend the frontiers, but only with reruns of last season's shows, and a "new drama series" disguised as Key Club Playhouse will run off old films from Ford Theater. Folksy Bandleader Lawrence Welk, whose climb to the No. 5 position in the ratings began with a summer replacement spot two years ago, will obligingly...
...boys, they're going to say them"). The foundation must also be wary of overselling a university on a project that it really has no business taking on. It must support group-research projects-for teamwork is the trend-but it must be careful not to slight the lone wolf. It has a responsibility to follow up its grants, but it must not dictate what its grantees do. Finally, it must master one of the most difficult tasks of all in foundationmanship-knowing when to terminate a grant. It must be able to get out of a project that...