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...root of the matter is the fact that the people who worked the play up are all pretty talented. Anouilh created a fast-moving and well-confused story, making even his stock characters interesting--the butler wonderfully antique, the rich Messerschmann intriguingly reduced to eating nothing but noodles, "without butter and without salt." Fry, in translating and adapting Anouilh's orignal L'invitation au chateau, left the dramatic action intact but colored up the prose considerably, at the same time avoiding any over-fanciful flights of words. Only in the third act, when there is too much emphasis...
...with Beech-Nut Packing Co., third biggest U.S. chewing-gum maker (after Wrigley, American Chicle). The merger, still to be formally approved by directors and stockholders, was a logical move for both companies. Life Savers was eager to expand. Beech-Nut, which also makes baby food, coffee and peanut butter, had been unable to fatten its profit margin: only $3,747,000 last year, about 4% on $91,084,000 worth of sales, v. Life Savers' 13.5% net on a $20,382,000 gross. Said 73-year-old Edward John Noble, Life Savers' executive-committee chairman...
Sitting in his truck of butter beans at the Plant City (Fla.) market one day last week, Farmer E. O. Goodson looked utterly bored. "I don't think I'm going to vote on May 29," he said, when told that Democratic Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson was speaking only a few blocks away. Then, his beans unloaded, Goodson drove home without another thought of next week's presidential primary, in which Stevenson and Estes Kefauver face a showdown for Florida's 28 convention votes...
...children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round-the-clock vending machines will sell such necessities as bread, butter and eggs; merchandise will move out of automated warehouses in 40-case lots. Says he: "You can't have a highly modern production plant with a horse-and-buggy distribution system. The supermarket will revolutionize our buying habits-and the revolution is just beginning...
...commonly caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the arteries hindering the normal flow of blood. This fatty lining has been found in the atreries of nine out of ten monkeys fed on a carefully regulated diet consisting chiefly of saturated fats such as are found in butter, Spry or Crisco in contrast to the unsaturated fats in corn or olive...