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...modernize. In 1951 Gavin stepped out of the presidency and up to chairman of the board, the title previously held only by Hill and his son, Louis Hill. Until he broke a hip last fall, Gavin continued to take an active interest. Last week President John M. Budd informed Great Northern stockholders that Gavin, ailing at 78, had decided to resign as chairman and director...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Billy Budd, Herman Melville's moving tale of a shipboard murder trial, with Jason Robards Jr., James Donald and Roddy McDowall...
...prevented him from attempting some ambitious shows. Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Ninotchka, Waterloo Bridge are all on the books. He is angling for the rights to Our Town, has already taped an impressive remake of The Moon and Sixpence, starring Sir Laurence Olivier. In May he will do Billy Budd, in August The Ransom of Red Chief; just before Christmas he plans to produce Arrowsmith...
...Budd Co. (automobile brake drums, wheels, etc.) will move out of the red and show a 1958 profit because of a "greatly improved fourth quarter...
...Disenchanted (by Budd Schulberg and Harvey Breit) treats of Manley Halliday, who. if not wholly Scott Fitzgerald, is very much his blood brother. It treats of him, in a running narrative, in defeat; it shows him, by way of flashbacks, in decline. The razzle-dazzle days of the '20s, the champagne-bath marriage to an irresistible playmate and a hopelessly irresponsible wife, the dropping of bank notes like confetti, have left a writer as drained as his bank account. To get money enough to go on with a book, he agrees to work on a Hollywood film about college...