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...stocks were coming down to size. Last week Gulf Oil Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co., Texas Co., Tidewater Oil Co. and Shell Oil Co. all reported record sales-and often record profitssfor 1957. Almost without exception they expected a good year in 1958. Said Cities Service President Burl S. Watson: "We have our problems, but every company is forecasting still another increase in demand this year...
...Hollywood's credit that the extremities of the Elms have not been pruned. O'Neill set out to write a Yankee Oedipus Rex, but what came out might more appropriately have been titled Sex Rex. The antagonists of the drama are a father (Burl Ives) and a son (Anthony Perkins), and the subject of their struggle, as in the myths of heroic succession on which the drama is modeled, is the land (a New England farm) and the woman (Sophia Loren). The son aspires to his inheritance, but the father, a massive brute of 76 who vows...
...movies three times a week, exulted in the talents of their cook. About once a week they talked by radiotelephone to their families. Occasionally, some of them got tired of hearing certain hi-fi records, took to hiding them around the camp (one victim: twangy Ballad Singer-Guitarist Burl Ives). But the men balked only once-when a stateside psychologist sent down a lengthy questionnaire probing each man's attitude toward the others. On unanimous demand, the camp doctor tore up the questions...
...performer named Judith Tuvim, who later blossomed into Judy Holliday, and the occasional services of a skinny young accompanist, fresh out of Harvard, named Leonard Bernstein. Since then more green talent has ripened in the Vanguard's cellar than in any other place in town-Folk Singers Burl Ives and Richard Dyer-Bennet. Comics Wally Cox and Roger Price, Singers Eartha Kitt and Pearl Bailey. It was the Vanguard that sent Harry Belafonte, a run-of-the-scale crooner six years ago, on his way to being the most popular balladeer of his day. But last week the venerable...
...play and movie, The Bad Seed. As superlatively played by Teresa Wright, Annie was a no-nonsense teacher who refused to turn the other cheek. She fulminated against her charge ("pigheaded little jackass"), even slapped her occasionally. Nor did she mince words with the too-solicitous Captain (Burl Ives) and Mrs. Keller (Katharine Bard): "Helen's worst handicap isn't blindness, it's your love and pity . . ." The story closed movingly on Annie's first real triumph with Helen. As water trickled from the garden pump over her fingers, Helen made her first association between...