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...Disney used to do, but Disney has neglected the field for live films and amusement-park management, and six-year-olds should howl happily at the replacement. The hero is an emetic little monkey (U.S. adapters thoughtfully assigned Crooner Frankie Avalon to provide his voice) who sets "out to conquer the world. Along the way he collects some traveling companions, including a prince, an excellent pig (voice drolly done by Comic Jonathan Winters) and a truly estimable cannibal (voice by Arnold Stang). They meet a succession of blackhearted monsters, all agents of wicked King Gruesome. Naturally, goodness prevails, with satisfactory...
...than earnest Socialists. As early as March 5, 1945, hard on the heels of the Yalta Conference, TIME published a prophetic "political fairy tale" by Chambers that was called "The Ghosts on the Roof," in which he accurately predicted a ruthless, imperialistic Russia about to launch an offensive to conquer the world. Chambers' concern with evil could also take other forms. In a fanciful and humorous article for LIFE, Chambers pictured the Devil as a sort of cosmic underground agent-an embodiment of evil in disguise...
...lags. Director Moss Hart himself rehearses every major cast change, and Authors Lerner and Loewe check in occasionally. Lady has, to date, taken in some $50.2 million -$18 million on Broadway, $15.7 million from the traveling national company. $16.5 million from foreign productions. But there are still worlds to conquer. Although My Fair Lady's performance record will be up to Abie's Irish Rose in just 14 weeks, it will not pass Tobacco Road until November 1963, or Life with Father until January...
Despite assurances from the economists that a new boom is coming, many a U.S. businessman last week could not conquer an uneasy hunch that for a while yet U.S. prosperity would be a kind of austere affluence. In a panel discussion of the business outlook sponsored by the First National Bank of Chicago, President Ralph Lazarus of Federated Department Stores predicted that steadily rising personal income would continue to improve retail sales, but added: "We foresee substantial growth, but not a sharp, runaway boom." President Robert S. Ingersoll of Borg-Warner Corp. looked for only a "gradual and minimal" upturn...
...effectively warn him that despite recent reverses, neither the President nor the U.S. could safe ly be pushed around. There were some who argued the necessity of the exercise: the Communists are pretty cock-a-hoop these days, sure that they can toy with the nuclear talks, conquer Laos, wreck the U.N., and maybe start something in Berlin...