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Unaccustomed Polish. As though rising to a challenge, the rest of the week's dramatic shows were far above average. Maurice Evans and Hallmark combined to produce a first-rate version of Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green. Eva Le Gallienne was crisply dictatorial as the do-gooding English spinster, while John Kerr smoldered like a burning coal as the boy brought from the bowels of a Welsh mine to the stately quadrangles of Oxford...
...added still more color to the economy's bloom. Across the U.S., big bankers found record earnings. With plentiful credit and steady repayments. Manhattan's First National City Bank reported net earnings of $42 million for 1955, 26% better than 1954; Manufacturers Trust (earnings: $16 million), Chemical Corn Exchange ($17 million), Guaranty Trust ($24 million) were all up from 10% to 29%. But California's huge Bank of America, the world's biggest private bank, had the biggest profit of all. It went into 1956 with resources of $9.7 billion, earnings of $66 million, both...
...which he gave a wet, soft and unconvincing glisten. .During World War I, Sargent sketched and painted at the front-an act of courage and enterprise which nevertheless achieved little. He had visited the U.S. on occasion, and never relinquished his U.S. citizenship. Toward the end he accepted a corn-mission to design murals for the rotunda and entrance hall of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which he hoped would be his great work...
...running a losing race against the technology of farming. With bigger machines, better seed and fertilizer, farmers produced enough to feed a much bigger population, and the nation's surpluses mounted-14.5 million bales of cotton, 938 million bu. of wheat, 3.2 billion bu. of corn. Inevitably, farm prices skidded, and gross farm income dropped to $32.6 billion, down $4.5 billion in four years...
...Benson listed earlier (TIME, Dec. 12), including a soil bank. Benson was considering the Farm Bureau's certificate gimmick, but he had not decided whether to accept or reject it. (Secretary Benson last week announced a new plan designed to reduce the surpluses: he will give surplus wheat, corn, rice and dry beans to private welfare agencies for shipment abroad to help feed the hungry...