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...Lyman C. Martin, 58, ex-factory hand, was named president and chief executive officer of Louisville's Mengel Co. (bedroom furniture, cardboard boxes), to succeed Alvin A. Voit, who resigned. After prep school, Kentuckian Martin went to work for Mengel's box factory, moved up quickly. Martin was picked for top boss by his longtime business friend Walter P. Paepcke, chairman of Container Corp. of America, which last year bought working control of Mengel. Container Corp. has no immediate plans to merge Mengel or make it a subsidiary, will let Martin run it as a separate company...
MARLBORO CIGARETTE (made by Philip Morris) is introducing a king-size filter tip in a flip-top, crushproof cardboard box which the company says took seven years and 50 patents to develop, and which can be re-used as a handy container for rolled-up nylons, nuts, bolts and fishhooks...
...success are limited, however, since it appeals mainly to Bostonians wanting to see some familiar scenes and to the robbery's original cast wanting to see some unfamiliar and ludicrously phoney ones. The Boston scenes, by the way, are real, for the Universal people were not satisfied with a cardboard Common. Unfortunately, however, they were perfectly satisfied with cardboard characterization and plot...
...Twentieth Century-Fox Boss Darryl nuck announced that he will reissue Wilson (1944), in which the hero is flattened into a onedimensional, internationalist Woodrow Wilson and the villains are cardboard Republicans, especially Henry Cabot Lodge, the elder. Said Zanuck, who always liked the picture: "It was an artistic and sociological success ... but it came out at the wrong time...
...merges sections dominated by Parisian scenes, Johnson gazing at Taylor, wild parties, and family conflict over the baby. The confusing result has been to leave the impression that The Last Time I Saw Paris is not much more than pointless meandering between a fake left bank bistro and a cardboard Arc de Triomphe...