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...Tierney won't understand, he hides the girl in the attic. From there out, it is pie-in-the-eye farce, but with a gentle sigh to be heard, just offscreen, for the inexorable way of a maid with a man. Best of all is the fine satin cushion of language underneath the folderol...
...advertising bumping the ceiling, many a publisher has looked for income from new sources. The Dallas Times-Herald receives one-third of its income from its profitable TV station, and the Washington Post and Times-Herald has found that earnings from its TV and radio stations provide a valuable cushion against the shocks of newspaper expenses. Publishers are also installing expensive color-printing equipment that enables them to earn more money from advertisers for the same amount of newsprint. But improvements run high. "I bought the Free Press [for $3,200,000]," says Publisher John Knight, who controls the Akron...
...Siege at Red River (Panoramic; 20th Century-Fox) is a solid wad of batting from Fox's production cushion. Last year, when the studio converted to CinemaScope, it shrewdly maintained a small-screen corporation to fall back on, just in case CinemaScope should prove to be a lumpy bed. It was headed by Leonard Goldstein (TIME. April 28. 1952), who made millions for Universal-International with low-budget pictures like Ma and Pa Kettle and Francis, the talking mule. Now that the wide-screen boom is, in fact, shaking down to competitive normalcy, Goldstein may be worth his weight...
...bill passed by the 80th Congress, support prices would slide down to 75% of parity when a crop is in surplus, rise to 90% when it is scarce. The theory: farmers, with an eye on the support price, would base their planting on the law of supply & demand. To cushion the effects of the change to flexible supports, the Federal Government would limit the rate at which support prices could drop to 5% a year. It would also "insulate" $2.5 billion worth of Government-held surpluses, taking them out of the normal channels and diverting them to special uses...
...Chemical Cushion. A new cushioning material made from a polyester resin (the basis of Dacron) was put on the market by Hudson Foam Plastics Co., Yonkers, N.Y. Mattresses of foam polyester will have to be only about 1½ in. thick, v. 4 in. for foam rubber...