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...Waterfront (Horizon; Columbia) is an attempt by a master director, Elia Kazan, to develop heroic, classic-style drama out of dockside thuggery and union corruption. Kazan succeeds in producing a shrewd piece of screen journalism, a melodrama in the grand manner of Public Enemy and Little Caesar. But he fails to do anything more serious-largely because he tries too hard. In searching for the general meaning in little lives, Director Kazan has trained his lens down fine on small events; he has too often watched his characters through the magnifying glass of special prejudice-the old sentimental prejudice that...
Nicos Vernicos, 34, scion of an old Mediterranean shipping family, was named president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic passenger carriers (Italia, Atlantic, Homeric, Roma, Nassau, Homeland). Vernicos was picked and trained for the job by his shrewd bachelor godfather, Eugen Eugenides, who was boss of the line till his death last April. Vernicos was born in Sifnos, Greece, educated at the University of London, worked for Swedish State Railways and S.K.F. before joining the Home Lines...
...taxes, the Senate, more by accident than through shrewd strategy, approved the Administration's controversial tax-revision bill in a form that would meet with Ike's approval...
Last week, eying her towering cake, she paid homage to the three people most responsible, besides herself and Husband Desi, for keeping the show on top of the heap. Said shrewd Comedienne Ball: "I love them dearly, I appreciate them daily, I praise them hourly, and I thank God for them every night." Everyone in the studio, from stagehand to sponsor's representative, knew that Lucy was talking about Chief Writer and Producer Jess Oppenheimer and Writers Bob Carroll...
Champion & Limousine. If the merger goes through, it will be the third for the auto industry in a little more than a year (the others: Kaiser-Willys, Nash-Hud-son). But it is a necessary step and a shrewd move for both. The two independents have steadily lost ground in 1954's red-hot auto race. Packard sales are down 53%, Studebaker's 55%; both lost money in the first quarter-$6,000,000 for Studebaker and $380,000 for Packard. By joining forces, they can put together a sales organization of some 3,900 dealers across...