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Until last summer, Colombo was virtually unknown except to law-enforcement agencies and readers of crime stories. The son of Anthony Colombo, a gangster who was strangled with a girl friend du ing the '30s mob wars, Colombo served in the Army during World War II. After a dishonorable discharge, he became a minor figure along New York's waterfront. He was arrested at least 12 times during this period and had three convictions on gambling charges. In 1964, authorities allege, Colombo ascended to leadership of Joseph Profaci's Mafia family in Brooklyn after the "Banana...
Ever since Du Pont scientists in the 1930s mixed coal tar, air and water to produce nylon, the wizards of Wilmington, Del., have been searching and researching for another equally profitable synthetic smash. By 1964, Du Pont chemists thought that they had found it: a porous polymer that looked and felt like leather, yet wore like armor plate. The company thereupon introduced Corfam, a weatherproof shoe material, predicting that by 1984 every fourth foot in the country would be encased in it. Du Pont stock rose to an all-time...
Last week Du Pont announced that, after seven years of bad luck, it is walking out on Corfam. Though some 100 million pairs of synthetic shoes are still afoot, the firm has lost as much as $100 million trying to make and market its material. A flood of inferior but cheaper leather substitutes crowded Corfam out of the low-priced shoe market, company men said, and consumers kept favoring leather for expensive footwear. Many people complained that Corfam shoes were hard to break in and hot to wear. The company was never able to reduce production costs enough to make...
While later masterpieces like Le Crime de M. Lange (1936) and La Marscillaise (1938) are more consistent on a directly formal level, they still depend on acting for their impact and, indeed, are still films about social acting. This becomes transparently clear in La Regle du Jeu (1939) and its kindred masterpieces of the fifties. Throughout Renoir's films all characters' actions are social in nature; scarcely a man performs an action by himself, or for himself; every act is a species of public performance. Even when Michel Simon awakens in La Chienne (1931) and goes to shave, a window...
...surely, mean to be insulting; and it is not without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor to improve us by kindly pointing out our faults. So, also, if we find our Connecticut cousins rather unnecessarily patriotic, imbued somewhat deeply with the esprit du corps, or the least bit in the world too frank in expressing their opinions, let us merely say, "Their manners, you know, are so delightfully natural!" In conclusion, however, we really must remind our excellent friends- however much we may enjoy their little jeux d'esprit - that...