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...left-wing New Republic, which is written and edited for a discerning few (circ. 29,453), had bad news last week for the minority-within-a-minority who buy the magazine on newsstands. In a full-page advertisement, the magazine informed readers that American News Co., its longtime newsstand distributor, had decided to drop the New Republic because it is "not edited for a mass circulation." Retorted American News Vice President Herbert Frilen: "The New Republic was only selling 2,000 copies on newsstands nationally. Not only that: there was the cost of handling returns, more than...
Denounced from the pulpit by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman as "revolting" and "morally repellent."* Baby Doll ran into its biggest snarl in Providence. The police snipped half a dozen scenes before they would permit it to be shown. Warner Bros., the film's distributor, threatened to sue the exhibitor if he showed the cut version, but he hung out his "For Adults Only" shingle and began running it anyway. Roman Catholic Bishop Russell J. McVinney of Providence urged his flock to abide by the Legion of Decency's ban against the picture even...
...discovery, made in 1953, caused little stir until a fortnight ago when Lindley's publicity-wise Shell Petroleum distributor got the press interested. Reporters and scholars flocked to the site. Sir Albert Richardson, president of the Royal Academy, traveled down to view the discovery, enthusiastically pronounced the paintings "unique." Said Egmont Lind, art restorer of Denmark's National Museum: "They are the only early wall paintings I have seen in England that have not been touched, apart from the deliberate disfigurement since the day they were painted...
Rations & Noses. All told, Western Europe has only enough oil on hand for five weeks. To conserve it, Great Britain has already started rationing oil by cutting consumer supplies 10% at the distributor level; France began rationing gasoline by restricting all pleasure travel and tourism. Other European nations are also feeling the pinch...
...ticked off its sixth major management switch, in the last ten years. Control of the oldest U.S. watch company was sold by Sydney Albert's Bellanca Corp. to a group headed by Joseph Axler, 44, who owns three wholesale watch companies, claims to be the largest U.S. watch distributor. He became Waltham president. In as board chairman went...