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...Gaumont; Continental) is an American's idea of a Frenchman's idea of an Englishman's idea of France. The American is Director Preston Sturges, a comic genie (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) who was popped back in the bottle by Hollywood some years ago, but who recently popped out in Paris, where he made this film. The Frenchman is Journalist Pierre Daninos and the Englishman is Major Thompson, the hero of The Notebooks of Major Thompson (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955), a collection of Daninos' sometimes hilarious feature stories that has sold more than...
Several major changes in the requirements for undergraduate concentrators in Economics were announced today by Lee E. Preston, head tutor in the department. The new program will apply to members of the Class of '59 and succeeding classes. Its effect will be confined principally to honors candidates...
...changes are designed to cope with problems which arise, almost inevitably, in the course of administering a field with as many concentrators as Economics. As Preston commented, "We are such a big field that many of our students tend just to go through the mill. The intent of our new program is to stimulate the honors concentrator to a higher level of work and more individual work, and, for both honors and non-honors candidates, to allow some increase in his range of courses...
Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Philip Barry's The Animal Kingdom, with Robert Preston (color...
...Died. Preston Thomas Tucker, 53, fast-talking auto designer who tantalized the car-starved U.S. public in 1946 with plans for the revolutionary (air-cooled rear engine, fuel injection, 130 m.p.h.) Tucker Torpedo, went bankrupt after producing a few hand-built models; of lung cancer; in Ypsilanti, Mich. Visionary Tucker was cleared in 1950 of U.S. charges of mail fraud and SEC violations, claimed Government meddling and malevolent auto tycoons did him in, by 1955 was riding another rear-engined dream, trying to promote $2,000,000 to build...