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Signal Oil and Gas Co., having acquired companies in fields as diverse as aerospace (Garrett Corp.), trucking (Mack) and banking (Arizona Bancorporation), recently jested in advertisements that "we've thought of calling ourselves Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporation." While Signal does, in fact, plan to take on a new name that will better reflect its conglomerate status, that tongue twister will never do-if only because the company would have to keep changing its letterheads. Last week, for instance, it might have become "Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporationallischalmers...
Short of Sources. Then, last December, Wolman began running short of money sources; he sold John Hancock his interest in the Chicago skyscraper for $5,500,000, getting only half his investment back. Now his other holdings are also threatened-including millions in real estate, Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium and the Yellow Cab companies of Philadelphia and Camden, N.J. In addition, he has overdrawn his bank accounts by $85,000, is $226,000 behind in paying his insurance premiums and owes $182,000 in back taxes...
...gauze-covered lens, invariably associated with the worst of movie schmaltz, finds a new use as a device of alienation. The classic Mack Sennett chase here horrifies as well as amuses. And the typical Hollywood good looks of the two stars reinforce the sense of physical destruction as they are suddenly maimed...
...only to carry off this scene, there must be something in Richard to dominate the play and all its characters. This Alan Bates lacks. Less butcher than ballet master, less Machiavelli than Mack the Knife, Bates prances where Richard pounces, smirks where Richard sneers. While melodrama is often a parody of tragedy, it cannot stand the added parody of kidding itself, which is what Bates does. The kingdom of this play needs a masterful Richard more than Richard needs a horse...
...Carlos, Calif. (Mathematics); Robert F. Carter Jr. of Chattanooga, Tenn. (English); William V.B. Damon of Cambridge (Social Relations); Robert C. Finch of Cambridge (English); J. R. Huntsberger of Palo Alto, Calif. (Economics); Roger A. Lewin of Cleveland Heights O. (Social Studies); W.F. Marzluff Jr. of Stanford, Conn. (Chemistry); Mack Phillips of Newton (History); Jeremy D. Pool of Menlo Park, Calif. (Social Relations); Jon M. Rosenblatt of New York (English); Roger E. Rosenblatt of Alexandria, Va. (Social Relations): S.L. Saltonstall of Boston (History and Literature) and Robert E. Wood of Radnor, Pa. (Social Studies...