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...golden twilight of the 19th century, most U.S. artists were mainly tourists. They had succumbed to what Henry James diagnosed as "the great American disease, the appetite for color and form, for the picturesque and romantic at any price." By the hundreds, they fled the industrial turmoil and cracker-barrel esthetics of their native U.S. for the postcard châteaux and quaint peasantry of Europe. But Ohio farmers on McCormick reapers did not fit into pretty landscapes as nicely as Normans driving oxcarts; few artists returned able to apply lessons learned abroad to the U.S. scene...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bert Lahr plays an aged safe cracker who mobilizes an old folks' home for one last caper...
...offstage wife of 24 years, Catherine, and began to concentrate on after-theater sorties with his leading lady, Swedish Singer Ulla Sallert, 41. Ulla says it is "just a coincidence" that she is divorcing her husband of 19 years, Baron Franz von Lampe. "I am not a home-cracker," she coos, "but if I'm invited by my leading partner to dinner, I don't see why I shouldn't accept...
Cartoonists have had fun with the trend, showing stewardesses peddling Cracker Jacks or children being turned away from an "Adults Only" flight. But for a cost to the line of from $50 to $80 a flight, the movies earn their fare. TWA, for example, has increased its passenger business 28% so far this year, and the movies get at least partial credit. TWA has dropped its $1 movie charge in economy class, and most other lines will show their movies free to all classes. What the passenger gets is sound and pictures that are surprisingly clear, though the new systems...
...last year accounted for almost $2 billion in sales of everything from potato chips to pretzels to pralines. Attracted by such growth, dozens of big companies have hastened to get in their licks. One such is the Borden Co., a conservative, 107-year-old dairy company that bought out Cracker Jack and a pretzel and corn-chip manufacturer as part of its diversification program. Last week, Borden's continued to nibble, announced that it will acquire the Wise Potato Chip Co., whose annual sales are $20 million...