Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Research Director Edmund Mennis of Philadelphia's Wellington Fund: "The industries hardest hit by the 1958 recession (autos, textiles, steels, chemicals, metals, machinery and rubber) are expected to have the sharpest recovery...
Died. Marshall Neilan, 65, live-it-up Hollywood director of the silent era (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hell's Angels); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. One of the most lavish spenders in filmland history, "Mickey"' Neilan regularly exhausted a drawing account of $10,000 a week...
...Instructed Count Giuseppe della Torre, director of the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano, to eliminate honorific phrases about the Pope, e.g., "The Highest Pontiff," "The Illuminated Holy Father," "As we gathered from the august lips." Said John: "It would be much better if you simply said 'The Pope has done this' and 'The Pontiff has said that...
Unfortunately, the picture's plot (good girl helps bad guy go straight) fits the mood like a concrete overshoe, and the more than generous serving of cheesecake is pretty soggy stuff. In the fleshier episodes, Director Nicholas Ray seems to have striven to achieve a mood that is neither of the '30s nor of the '50s, but that might be said to contain the breast of both worlds...
...REALLY SINCERE GUY (McKay; $4), by Robert Van Riper, public-relations director of N. W. Ayer & Son's Philadelphia office, poses a puzzler: Can a publicity man who believes in low tariffs find happiness with a client who wants him to tout high tariffs? Van Riper's idealogue finds happiness for a while with a yummy girl reporter from a newsmagazine, finally goes back to his wife and the dream of all P.R. men: a nice little agency of his own, with clients who tariff low, pay high...