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...party broke up after midnight, Morozov, now thoroughly relaxed, the plainclothesman's fish-eyed stare gone from his face, said: "You know the Major here and I often discuss political questions, but it gets boring. We each know exactly what the other is going to say. Now tonight it has been different. It has been interesting...
...ambassador did not seem particularly enchanted with Detroit, nor with the detectives who formed a wall of flesh around him throughout his visit. But he was shown capitalistic splendor of all types. He was taken to the Ford plant, equipped with goggles, and directed to stare into an open hearth furnace. Russian-born Mike Mukol, a steelworker, was called up to explain everything...
...Hucksters is Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June, and M-G-M has paid $200,000 for a seven-year lease of the movie rights. It is dedicated "to those who sometimes awake suddenly to stare into the leisure of the night and consider with brief terror how their lives are spent." Least effective when it is most solemn, it reaches its top levels when sardonically demonstrating what Critic Clifton Fadiman calls "the yawning disproportion between the ingenuity of the means and the triviality of the ends" in advertising. Long-suffering radio audiences may also hope that...
...scampered up a ladder to stare into a car. He climbed up on the tailgate of Melvin Soundreal's truck. He ran his hands through Soundreal's golden wheat but refused to stand in it for photographers, saying with authority: "That's bad farm practice." Experts agreed that Butch was no authority, but no one minded that. He watched a parade of trucks poop-poop through Climax loaded with 20,000 bushels of wheat. He made a speech, waving a few pieces of macaroni: "This is a day's ration in many places...
...Made in U.S.A." to the label, but FTC stuck to its ruling that "Canadian Ace" could not be used. Commissioner Mason took a good layman's look at the offending label, reported: "It is hard to tell exactly what this label does to me. . . . Every time I stare at it, I get a different emotion." But at no time did he get the emotion that he was being defrauded. Result: Manhattan Brewing could keep its "Canadian Ace" if qualified by a tag line "Made in U.S.A...