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The play itself was far enough from the frontier it pretended to present, and the worst thing about it was the atmosphere of Park Avenue hayride: its coy, commercial pretense that its outhouse-and-leotards folksiness was the essence of America itself. With its first frames the camera swallows this...
Last week, in the state capital of Nagpur, Politician Shukla brought the campaign to a climax. Behind a crowd-catching corps of dancing drummers and yellow-painted naked men wearing tails to look like tigers, a horde of Hindus danced past the twin-spired Anglican cathedral. They moved on to...
Chamber of Commerce president, reminded an Adrian Chamber of Commerce meeting that his company, now the second biggest U.S. independent copper and brass fabricator, had been founded on land given by Circusman P. T. Barnum in Connecticut. Said he: "We knew how to handle elephants." After the meeting, Steinkraus started...
During Bridgeport's first 15 months at the plant, the elephant stayed deathly pale. By mid-1955, losses totaled more than $1,750,000. But Steinkraus was still confident that he could make aluminum production pay. Last week the company was running in the black, and Bridgeport's...
Numismatist. In McKeesport, Pa., searched by the cops who nabbed him as he fled from the premises of the Tube City Lumber Co. with $5.20 in change stuffed and jingling in his shoes, Herbert W. Gailey, 33, explained: "I save dimes." Surprise! Near Warren, Ohio, after her husband bought an...