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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridge on the River Kwai. The best picture of 1957: an enthralling story of men in war; with Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden and Jack Hawkins (TIME...
...Hatful of Rain. The best of all the recent Hollywood dope operas; with Don Murray. Eva Marie Saint (TIME...
...Girls. The year's best musical, starring the year's funniest musicomedienne: Kay Kendall (TIME...
...arguments about executive training is where it should take place. Many corporations argue that a university or management training institute is the best place because it gives the executive a chance to gain a broader perspective by throwing him together with men from many and varied fields (both the Bank of America and Forest Lawn cemetery send their executives to California colleges). Says Dr. Joseph Trickett, professor of management at the University of Santa Clara, and onetime executive: "When you take a man whose work has made him provincial and send him off to Harvard, he sees other men from...
Died. Norma Talmadge, 60, velvet-eyed star of the silent screen, best-known of three moviemaking sisters (the others: Constance, Natalie); of pneumonia; in Las Vegas. A two-reeler actress at 14, Siren Talmadge vamped her way to high-salaried high living (up to $7,500 a week) in a low-tax era, became one of Hollywood's top-rated movie queens in the '20s under the shrewd guidance of first husband Joseph M. Schenk (through such films as Smilin' Through, Camille), retired in 1930 with wealth intact after an unsuccessful try at the talkies...