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BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB will soon have its 27th member: Sinclair Oil Corp., with an estimated 1954 gross income of more than $1 billion and profits of about $74 million, some $6,000,000 better than 1953, and equal to $6 per share...
...President flew to Boston early last week, at the invitation of Archbishop Richard J. Gushing, to address the 27th national convention of the National Council of Catholic Women. In a bipartisan speech on world peace (see above), Ike made a bipartisan political aside. He said, with real feeling, that he joined in the prayers of Boston that Democratic Senator John Kennedy "be shortly restored to full health."† After the speech, the President rode through downtown Boston's Washington Street, was greeted by a storm of confetti and a huge, cheering crowd...
From Venice, TIME'S Art Editor Alexander Eliot cabled: THE world's biggest and best roundup of contemporary art occurs every two years in Venice. Last week red-cockaded carabinieri paraded, a splendid procession of gilded gondolas wound across the lagoon, and officials made speeches as the 27th Biennale opened in Venice's Public Gardens. In the tree-bordered pavilions bordering the lagoon, a jury representing nearly all of the 32 participating countries mulled over the thousands of paintings and sculptures...
...Pickwick Papers (Renown; Mayer-Kingsley). The movies have already made 26 films based on Charles Dickens' works. This 27th, the first full-length picture made from The Pickwick Papers, is a nimble scamper through that intricate and delightfully interminable literary labyrinth...
Seeing only the big Clasby publicity, few Crimson football fans realized that John Culver was also drafted by the N.F.L. last week. The powerful fullback was the choice of the Chicago cardinals in the 27th round...