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...hall, his audience was, as usual, two-thirds women, from bobby-soxers to grandmothers. They basked happily as his performances washed over them: folk songs, show tunes and his own arrangements of such classics as Debussy's Clair de Lime and Grieg's Concerto, most of which he played with artfully simplified fingerwork in the frillier runs. For a topper, he opened up his laryngitic baritone in a perennial favorite of the middleaged, September Song. When it was all over, he dangled his feet over a corner of the stage, signed his pictures, shook hands and accepted embraces...
There were soft spots in the economy, too, and some of them seemed to offer a measure of support for the recession talk that was loose in the land. With farm income down, the farm-machinery busi ness slumped. The petroleum industry showed signs of overproduction; Sin clair Refining Co. and Phillips Petroleum Co. cut their crude-oil refinery runs 3 to 5% for September. Auto production fell moderately during August as auto makers began to feel the Hydra-Matic transmission pinch and output of 1953 models started to taper off in preparation for retooling for 1954. There was softness...
...Clair, most famous of the French moviemakers, foresaw another consequence of the wide-screen revolution. Quick, frequent shifts from one image to another would be impossible in CinemaScope. The eye cannot take in so large an image in one glance, and the mind is irritated by too rapid change of an image so encompassing that it seems like an environment...
...liked nightclubs more than the office. But now he is the hardest worker of the three. He puts in long hours as boss of the Lincoln-Mercury division, has not had time for a round of golf in two years. But he finds time to cruise on Lake St. Clair on weekends in his 42-ft. cabin cruiser with his wife, the former Edith McNaughton of Detroit, and their two children. Like Henry, Ben has also developed into an able speaker. "When we decided it was time for him to make a speech to the Washington dealers," Ernie Breech recalls...
...times during the evening that he plays serious music, Borge keeps his audience alert by mixing a strain from "Farmer in the Dell" into the classic. For most of the evening, however, he is introducing his few selections: "I must confess I know only two numbers: one is 'Clair de Lune.' The other isn't." And then he laughs, a sound like seals barking...