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With this final honor, Gossie retired from the show ring, was carried off to the Venables' home in Atlanta. There he will lead a life of casual ease, and devote himself to the task of improving his breed (stud fee $150). Business should be brisk, for Pekingese fanciers are willing to overlook the single fault of Westminster's champion. He snores...
...high-ceilinged office in the Elysée Palace early last week, a pair of elderly men who have been friends since their military student days at St. Cyr 50 years ago dispassionately discussed their opposing views on Algeria. Sympathetically, brisk, beefy Alphonse Juin, the only living marshal of France, told Charles de Gaulle that he looked tired. Answered De Gaulle: "I am old. Death waits for me, I know." Then, wearily, he added: "But I have never been so resolved...
...most of the time Moviemaker Sutherland proves a slick entertainer and a painless pedagogue. Unhappily, the music of Oscar-Winning Dmitri Tiomkin, who is probably the world's loudest composer, bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer. But the picture's pace is brisk, its tricks of animation are better than cute, and the plug, when the sponsor slips it in on the final frame, is modestly understated: "A presentation of U.S. Steel...
...conducts almost every number too fast, but the fine voices and fluent technique of the singers (especially the men--John McCollum, Robert Paul and Ronald Holgate, and Wednesday's Fiordiligi, Marguerite Willauer) go at least a little ways toward rescuing the situation. The staging, also Mr. Goldovsky's, is brisk though not particularly witty, and the only really unqualified success are Leo van Witsen's gorgeous clothes, whose rococo sometimes borders on the fantastic...
Into Manhattan's Coliseum last week to celebrate its golden anniversary steamed the National Motor Boat Show towing along 426 exhibits and 510 boats, the biggest fleet in show history. Crowds were so big-and sales so brisk-that the industry expects 1960 will easily top record 1959 when nearly $2.5 billion was spent on boating, including sales of 540,000 outboard motors, some 500,000 boats, and 175,000 boat trailers...