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Winchester '73 (Universal-International) is a crisp western in which a handsome repeating rifle ("the gun that won the West") inspires such yearning, fondling and fighting as not even horses, let alone heroines, ordinarily provoke...
...three months' trading on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, March futures in "Santos S" coffee rose 69% to a record of 50.1? a pound. The retail price of coffee hovered around 80?. For the rise, the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, which represents Latin American growers, had a crisp explanation: "The sudden rise in coffee prices may be explained in just two words-'bad weather...
...deal was the latest accomplishment of a management team that bought control of Childs's 53 restaurants two months ago for about $1,500,000. The team: crisp, ruddy-faced President N. Clark Earl Jr., onetime top aide to Restaurant Man Howard Johnson and formerly a colonel in charge of Army PXs and commissaries in Europe, and Executive Vice President Charles Crouch, 51, who had built up six faltering grocery stores into California's successful Lucky Stores chain (TIME, June 30, 1947). Although Childs had lost almost $230,000 in 1949 on a gross of nearly $20 million...
Under Vincente Minelli's crisp direction, the fun rarely lets up. Actress Taylor, perfectly cast, gives a winning performance. But in a production that makes a happy blend of many talents, Veteran Tracy is by far the most conspicuous. The role of the harassed, neglected father is his best in years, and from start to finish his flawless playing is a joy to watch...
Around the blue baize table in London's gloomy Lancaster House, the Western Big Three Foreign Ministers conferred for three days. Dean Acheson, crisp, clear and didactic, drove home his sharp points with a wagging forefinger. Britain's ailing Ernest Bevin, chomping away at his dentures, was his usual solid and grumpy self. France's Robert Schuman punctuated his speeches with faint smiles and exquisite little gestures of courtesy; he sat modestly hunched over the table, as if he were the least important man in the room...