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With time out to do a turn with WPB during World War II, Solinskj' built his little Cans, Inc. into an $8,000,000-a-year business making containers for Perk Dog Food (TIME, Sept. 29), popcorn, potato chips and beer. Competitors think the trouble with National Can is that it has been run too long by men who have been sitting on their own product. By exploiting such new markets as canned whole milk, Solinsky hopes to get the company back on its feet, boost it from fourth to third in the industry. Says...
...movie managers played it big. In Omaha, red carpeting was stretched from curb to lobby; in Asbury Park, N. J., advertisements invited people to come in evening clothes (but very few did); in Richmond, Va., the popcorn machine was hauled out of sight for the night. Ticket prices were scaled as high as $7.20. Finally, when all was in readiness, some 60,000 customers marched into theaters in 27 cities to see a live performance of Carmen, coming from the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan over closed-circuit television...
Purity with Popcorn. Writes Critic Kerr: "The Church in this country has . . . seemed to say, 'I don't care what the quality of the art work is, so long as its content is innocuous, or perhaps favorably disposed in our direction . . .' A film featuring a saint is a film of majestic technical excellence. A film showing a nun driving a jeep is a superbly made comedy. A film embracing a jolly priest, a self-sacrificing Catholic mother and an anti-Communist message must be defended in the diocesan press from those irresponsible esthetes . . . who have...
...Catholic taste in motion pictures has been frozen at the 'unobjectionable,' or purity-with-popcorn level, a level which, if pursued down the ages, would have called into question nearly every literary or dramatic masterpiece ever produced...
Even when, as on a Monday morning, the maid is greeted by broken glasses, soggy cigarette butts, and popcorn crushed underfoot, students assume no swinish proportions in their eyes. They can toss their clothes into a corner and leave them there to rot, but they are still "my boys" to the maids...