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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next year's budget will be another whopper: 20th will make 40 pictures worth $60 million, among them The Greatest Story Ever Told, John Brown's Body and The Battle of Leyte Gulf...
...fashioned notion that Hollywood ought to make lots of money by making lots of movies. Last week he announced that 20th is driving ahead on one of the biggest shooting schedules in its history: 60 pictures in production, with another 28 screenplays ready for the cameras. Among $20 million worth of pictures to be released before the end of 1959: William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun, the French farce Palate, and a sexy shocker. The Chapman Report...
Splendid & Shameful. The outstanding feature of James Conant's long (1933-53) reign as president of Harvard was his interest in education-notably public schools. Among besieged educators, he was well known (and trusted) long before he became U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to West Germany (1953-57). Among plain citizens he has won towering respect since The American High School Today (McGraw-Hill; $1) was published early this year. This fall Conant embarks on a second study: the junior high school. Nobody has already done more to convince Americans that high schools can improve-"with no radical change...
This is the credo of Minoru Yamasaki, who at 46 is turning out some of the gayest and most graceful buildings in the U.S. In recognition of Yamasaki's growing stature among U.S. architects, the Detroit Institute of Arts will open next week a full-scale show of his past works and future projects, timed to coincide with the dedication of Yamasaki's newest building -the Detroit headquarters of Reynolds Metals Co. Though its grille of gold anodized aluminum owes an unabashed debt to Architect Ed Stone, the Reynolds building, on a 4½-acre plot...
...Britain, 42 mutual funds have sprung up (four of them in the past 15 months), offering to invest sums as small as 38?. With 400,000 buyers enrolled, British fund assets jumped 50% in the past year alone, to $336 million. Among newcomers to the capitalist class are thousands who still have no bank accounts. A poll of investors showed that one-fourth left school in the grammar grades. So radically has the British attitude toward buying shares in capitalism changed that even the Laborite Daily Herald in its financial column now urges mutual funds as a good place...