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...distances, with Fitzgerald, Benjamin, a healthy Martin, Bill Thompson, Jim Schlaeppi, and a freshman named Fred Howard who could possibly become the best of the bunch will certainly be as strong as this year, and probably stronger...
...americana. The most immediate problem facing the whooping crane is unfolding at the Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans, where Josephine, a splendid female whooper, has just laid two eggs (referred to as a "clutch"). Since breeding wild in west-central Canada is a slow and dubious process at best, zoo breeding is a major hope of whooping crane lovers. It has been discovered that if the clutch is stolen, the female crane will lay another, and repeat the process again after a second theft...
...fattest dividends from rising farm income (TIME, May 12) is going to the makers of farm equipment. Their sales, which turned down long before the recession, are on the rise. International Harvester reported its best April farm equipment sales since 1955; sales for the six months ending April 30 were up 5% over 1957. "The tractor business is ahead of last year for everyone," said Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. The most dramatic comeback has been staged by J. I. Case Co., which lost $2,845,027 in the first six months of fiscal '57. "Now," says...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness) -a magnificent story of war (TIME...
...lose," spieled a full-page ad by Doubleday & Co. in the New York Times Book Review. "We are so convinced of the appeal these important books will have for you that we are willing to bet that five of them will be best sellers by the first week in May." The terms: if more than one of the six failed to make the Times bestseller list by then, Doubleday promised to send a copy of any one of them "absolutely free" to anybody asking...