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Stage Struck (RKO Radio; Buena Vista) is a vigorous second blossoming, this time in hothouse Technicolors, of Morning Glory, the sentimental success of 1933. First time out, the blooming little idiot of the title role was portrayed by a young comer named Katharine Hepburn, and the performance won her an Oscar and made her a star. This time around, the stage-struck heroine is played by a young (19) comer named Susan Strasberg-well known on Broadway for her work in The Diary of Anne Frank-and the performance seems sure to win her Hollywood stardom...
...career-had been headed in that direction. Born in Brooklyn, he climbed steadily up the brass rungs of the Army's ladder since the day in 1929 when he pinned on his shavetail's bars at West Point. General George C. Marshall tagged him as a comer early in World War II. He served with distinction as General Matt Ridgway's deputy commander, jumped with the 82nd Airborne Division on Dday. At 37, succeeding Ridgway as boss of the 82nd, he was the youngest division commander in the U.S. Army...
TIME was when a new rug on the floor or a bigger office was the infallible sign of a rising executive. Today the management comer is more apt to find himself sent back to school with a pack of pencils and instructions to sharpen his potential. The new corporate fad-or what one executive calls "a fever sweeping industry"-was started to combat the shortage of executives by trying to force-feed talent in the classroom instead of waiting for it to grow naturally in the office. In 1957 alone, industry sent an estimated 300,000 executives back to school...
...sort of feller who has just been chosen sheriff, and who discovers to his horror that there is more to the job than wearing a tin star. The story develops as the oldtimer, much against his will, is drawn by sympathy into an attempt to teach the young comer how to be a proper lawman-before he becomes a dead...
Many experts who originally expected the market to establish a floor at the 450 level only to see it tumble another ten points thought that it might slip as far as 430 on the average before starting back up. Said Harry Comer, market analyst for Wall Street's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis: "Last week's unloading was not yet the old-fashioned selling climax which paves the way for a subsequent rise...