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...economy. In 1939 about $20 billion worth of inventories was adequate; in 1956 the U.S. needs four times as much to make sure that booming consumer demand is satisfied. With fore casts of a gross national product of $403 billion for 1956 (up $16 billion from 1955), inventories will creep still higher to keep pace with future sales. Moreover, because of increased distribution efficiency, the all-important ratio of inventories to sales has been dropping, reducing the danger of overloading. While the 1939 manufacturers' inventory level was enough for 2.1 months of sales, 1955's level was down...
Artists and Models (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is an alarming example of what can happen when a picture is remade too often. No matter how vigilant the studio, slight changes creep into each new version, until at last some producer makes a movie that is almost original. In this film, for instance, there is hardly anything left of its two Paramount predecessors except the old, reliable title. In fact, when Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis have finished their indefatigable routine, there is very little of anything left...
...Frontier (Columbia) ought to put the white man on his guard. It has been a long, hard fight, but the Indians are beginning to win. The reason is not hard to find. Victor Mature is a scout for the bluecoats, but every time old Red Cloud's boys creep up to the fort for a hair party, Mature is reconnoitering the firewater or the colonel's wife (Anne Bancroft). The colonel (Robert Preston) is 'presented as a psycho who would rather chase Red Cloud than Actress Bancroft. Vic is only too happy to take over the home...
...clarify or magnify the hidden part in which he feels the meaning lies, never to call direct attention to his own feelings or flaunt stylistic achievement. In this record of the greatest show on earth the poet breaks his reserve only to let a little wryness creep into certain turns of phrase, sudden words that seem to betray a tiny, noncommital wrinkle at the corner of the mouth. But this is an individuality which does not mar the observational clarity of the poems...
...himself, while the Nazis and Fascists gloated over the political passing of "Lord Eyelashes." But Churchill at least understood and mourned the lost opportunity. "There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender . . . Now he was gone. I watched the daylight creep slowly in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of Death...