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...Strawberries" runs through elderly Professor Isak Borg's one-day motor trip to receive an honorary degree at a Swedish university, and through old age's dreams of youth and death. Between self-revealing dream sequences, Borg is busy talking to his bitterly perceptive daughter-in-law (Ingrid Thulin), arguing and making-up with his stout-hearted housekeeper (Julan Kindahl), and experiencing three impossibly youthful hitch-hikers and an actress-and-husband couple whom he has picked up on the road to the university...
...professor Borg, Victor Sjostrom has emerged into some glowing Indian summer acting; his portrayal is effortless yet sustained and deep-cutting...
Sjostrom has been criticized for not emphasizing the "heartless coldness" that Borg's daughter-in-law alleges to exist in him. However, while she is a compelling inquisitor, the daughter-in-law is an impassioned--and perhaps obtuse--observer, who need not be believed. Bergman's direction of Sjostrom seemed quite valid in every respect...
...Corp., biggest seller of room units (fiscal 1958: $53.9 million), is running 10% ahead in shipments. In March alone, Westinghouse, which has air-conditioned everything from President Eisenhower's Gettysburg farmhouse to King Saud's Saudi Arabian harem, topped last year's shipment rate by 47%. Borg-Warner's York Division, which normally shuts its window-unit assembly lines by June 30., scheduled production well into July...
Encouraged by rising consumer buying, appliance makers have increased their production schedules, and some are adding to plant facilities. The Norge Division of Borg-Warner Corp. last week announced that it will boost second-quarter production 90% over the same period last year...