Word: exhibitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really concentrating on cars this year-cars that look well, run well, and are available to the ordinary citizen." So said an exhibitor last week of the biggest auto show ever held in the U.S. The Third International Automobile Show filled Manhattan's Coliseum with more than 600 cars from 68 automakers in nine countries, and as always the crowds clustered admiringly around the rich and the racy. Britain's famed Rolls-Royce showed off a new Silver Cloud convertible ($19,350); there was a 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin sports sedan ($9,870), a new French Facel-Vega...
...North Frederick (20th Century-Fox). Sex is the fire of life to Author John O'Hara, and through the fire his characters must pass to their destruction or salvation. But sex, at the rate O'Hara burns, is way too hot for the average U.S. movie exhibitor to handle; and so the producers of this picture, based on O'Hara's latest bestseller (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), have carefully put out the fire with a steady stream of eyewash -most of it, as a matter of fact, squeezed out of the soggier sections of the book...
Business was great in January. In February, despite bad weather, it was almost great. As one exhibitor explained: "The kids got to neck somewhere, and it's too cold in a parked...
True Love. In Brisbane, Australia, organizers of the Royal National Show, the annual state fair, received a letter from an exhibitor: "Please send me a fresh check for the prize money won by my goat. When I was showing the last check to the goat...
...Helen Frankenthaler. 28, well-to-do Bennington College graduate ('49), a standout exhibitor in all three shows who ranks high with the elder Abstract Expressionists as one of the few painters to follow in their wake, manages to give her intensely lyric, free-flow paintings a recognizably personal stamp. Up to using anything from a paint pot to her foot to gain her effects, she occasionally relaxes by switching to a meticulous landscape or realistic self-portrait. Says Painter Frankenthaler of her abstract work, "I just start to see what happens. You want clues? There are no clues...