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Foreign businessmen also feel that the American market is unpredictable and fickle. At home, customers are faithful to their traditional suppliers; the European producer is aghast at the casualness with which the American consumer is ready to leave one supplier for another who comes along with something brighter, cheaper-or better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FOREIGN GOODS | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Solid Gold Cadillac (by Howard Teichmann & George S. Kaufman) is at best goldplated, but that still leaves it considerably brighter than most current Broadway comedies. Furthermore, it proves a perfect vehicle for Josephine Hull, who exhibits her best You Can't Take It With You and Arsenic and Old Lace manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

From one of their own kind, however, the theater owners got a brighter image. Said Leonard H. Goldenson, president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc.: TV and the movies are so different that they are not truly competitive. "One is the 'athome snack' while the other is a seven-course meal at a sumptuous restaurant. And television will no more put motion pictures out of business than home cooking-good as it may be-has put restaurants out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: 4-D | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...brighter and deeper than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comic Poet Armour Attacks Recent Charges by McCarthy | 11/13/1953 | See Source »

...Government. Two years ago U.N. World got an overhauling by its new publisher, Roger S. Phillips, 31, scion of a wealthy Pennsylvania family (Phillips Gas & Oil Co.*). Phillips tried to make the magazine look less official (it was never connected with the U.N.), spruced it up with more pictures, brighter writing and worldwide coverage. But when U.N. World went on losing money, Publisher Phillips folded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brave New World | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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