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...that the future of Carnation's evaporated-milk business, which provided roughly one-third of its $318 million gross last year, depends on steady advances in U.S. dairy methods. On Carnation Milk Farms, a 1,400-acre show place in Washington's Snoqualmie Valley where Carnation has bred more prizewinning Holstein cows than any other U.S. breeder, only purebreds are allowed. Pride of Carnation's Holsteins is Carnation Homestead Daisy Madcap, a prolific champion that last year smashed the North American record for butterfat production by yielding a whopping 1.511.8 Ibs. in 365 days. But Carnation...
...American (Universal-International) is a nice little football picture, timed to get to the theaters as the real thing goes on display in the stadiums. Nick Bonelli (Tony Curtis), the slum-bred hero, is definitely depressing to the crew-cut rich boys at Sheridan U., because of his longish, jive-type hairdo. But most of the undergraduates are willing to suspend class warfare in Nick's case because he is such a good football player. Class harmony is assured when Nick goes off to the barber and comes back to win the big game for the home team...
...Dangling Man, The Victim) has handed over his typewriter to his hero, to let him tell his own story in his own way. As a result, the book, which has a kind of self-generating power and authenticity, reads more like fictionalized memoirs than a novel. Self-educated, slum-bred Augie writes with a combination of raw, breezy slang and literary allusion that is often bouncy and effective, although too frequently his overenthusiastic prose is merely bloated. But Augie is a bubbling, vivacious fellow who knows how to smile at the world-and laugh at himself, and despite its faults...
...Barracks. Anonymous Army spokesmen, with a knowing air, thought that the Navy (which has joined the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency in banning The Moon Is Blue) might be making a record for the future. Coming soon: The Caine Mutiny, a movie about sex, misery and a fumbling Annapolis-bred skipper, which the Navy may want to ban from all the ships...
...best man at the 1947 wedding of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived back in England after an Italian holiday with Hungarian-born Cinemactress Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke). Meanwhile, in Manhattan, the marchioness (the former Romaine Dahlgren Pierce ["Toodie"] Simpson, a Boston-bred divorcee) took legal steps leading to a divorce or separation suit. London reporters asked the marquess for comment on his wife's action, but it was too "difficult" for him to explain. As for Actress Bartok, he had met her a year ago, and "we . . . have been friendly ever since. That...