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...change in life from the days of the French Resistance to post-war times provides the movie's setting. Before D-Day it was considered brave to kill Germans and steal from them. Many who were enlisted into the movement scarcely knew why, and for some of them it was hard to stop...
...alltime champion, Columbia's South Pacific, has sold since 1949. Also climbing high in the sale of classical recordings, traditionally 25% of the market, and specialty albums, e.g., sports, plays, literary readings, politics. Last month ABC-Paramount brought out a collection of President Eisenhower's speeches, from D-day to his announcement of seeking a second term, already has sold 5,500 copies at $3.98. Book publisher Doubleday started its Dolphin division pressing records by sophisticated theater, nightclub and television stars. Last week Columbia Presi dent Goddard Lieberson, who induced CBS Chairman William S. Paley to back Fair...
...Elegant or Die." To André, who nursed Deauville through the Depression and rebuilt it from the rack of D-day and a G.I. rest center, "Deauville is the great lady whom I have always loved." A onetime croupier who rakes in $3,500,000 (and keeps about $150,000 after taxes) in a good season at Deauville, André blends the parsimony of his peasant ancestors with the persnikity ways of a protocol pundit. "Deauville," he insists, "must be elegant...
...Selling) established him as a drug merchandising authority. Nolen stayed on to teach at O.S.U., rose to head the university's marketing department before McKesson & Robbins hired him nine years ago as vice president. A World War II colonel, he served on General Eisenhower's staff from D-day in Normandy to V-E day. ¶ Lewis Gruber, 60, was named the fourth president in four years for P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent). His predecessor, William J. Halley, 58, moved down to head the finance committee. A native New Yorker, Gruber got a law degree from Tennessee...
...D-Day the Sixth of June (20th Century-Fox), in case anybody has forgotten, was the day Robert Taylor invaded France. Followed by a few hardy Hollywood extras, he went smashing ashore even before H-hour had struck, and broke the first hole in Hitler's Atlantic wall. After that, this picture seems to suggest, all that the other millions of guys had to do was to jump over Taylor's half-dead body and be careful not to fall in the Elbe. Back in London, Soldier Taylor gives a curt goodbye to an English girl (Dana Wynter...