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...Eastman Kodak...
...Philippines' most desirable residential and commercial areas, Makati lacks Manila's traffic jams, boasts lower taxes, cheaper office rentals and better telephone service. Over the past five years, the Ayalas have attracted such leading firms as the beer-making San Miguel Corp., Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Eastman Kodak. As a result, Makati's Ayala Avenue is sprouting a forest of office buildings that are taller and more modern than most commercial buildings in downtown Manila...
...that the Gazette watches only over its own citizenry. In summer, the population swells from 6,000 to some 50,000, and the paper views the comings and goings of these fair-weather residents with a wry Yankee eye. Max Eastman, Saul Bellow, Thomas Hart Benton, James Cagney, Leonard Bernstein are the stuff of summer gossip. Such is its relish for celebrities that the Gazette mixes fact' with fantasy in breezy abandon. One memorable item revealed that "Truman Capote and Geraldine Chaplin have checked into the bridal suite of the Menemsha...
...present the best collection of American silent films resides not in the American archives at Eastman House and the Museum of Modern Art, but in the Cinematheque Francais in Paris. The AFI, a private corporation based in Washington, D.C., initially endowed by the government, the Ford foundation, and the Motion Picture Association, is bringing it all back home. As archive director, Kahlenberg ferrets out American films of artistic and historical value that have disappeared for one or another reason. Some have vanished (like Hawks' Scarface, produced by the ubiquitous Howard Hughes, and all 35mm prints of Ford's Stagecoach...
...printing materials (either negatives, or prints in good condition) of their early films in the first years of the thirties, and have no clue to its whereabouts. Kahlenberg then goes to Willard van Dyke, curator of the Museum of Modern Art film Library, and James Card of Eastman House in Rochester--they may have access to a print or know of one also. But if they don't (and often even when they do know of one), Kahlenberg must go underground...