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After Warner Bros, excised half an hour from George Cukor's 1954 remake of A Star Is Born, the director vowed never to see the film again. Last week at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, after a painstaking reassembly, the original version that Cukor loved-all three hours of it-was shown publicly for the first time since its release 29 years ago. James Mason, 74, who played Norman Maine to Judy Garland's Esther Blodgett took a bow at intermission, but Film Historian Ronald Haver was the true star of the show. Combing...
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Wall Street also has been deciding that now is the right time to buy. Energy stocks have been among the best performers since fears of an all-out price war began ebbing last month. Says Merz Peters, an energy analyst for Brown Bros., Harriman: "Everybody's portfolio was underrepresented in oils." And for investors with a taste for a different speculation, futures contracts in crude oil began trading last month on the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. The two exchanges hope that the new contracts, which cover oil for future delivery, will...
Peter Peterson, chairman of Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb, the New York City investment banking firm, and former Secretary of Commerce: "Bailing out troubled companies is a broad-based policy, not an individual phenomenon. Lee lacocca has not only been a phenomenon, he has been phenomenal. But should we build a broad-based policy on the assumption that another lacocca would be at the helm...
Charles Luckman, Lever Bros.' president from 1946 to 1950, and an architect, felt strongly that the era needed an architectural expression. He commissioned Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to find it for Lever's new headquarters on Park Avenue between East 53rd and East 54th streets. The inspiration for Bunshaft, who later built the glass-walled PepsiCo, Inc., building in New York City and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., was the International Style. It was the architecture of functionalism that had originated in Europe before World War II and had been introduced...