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...another, critics at home and abroad have been saying much the same thing about Pianist Istomin for the last decade. Already approaching full maturity at a time when many a young pianist is still feeling out technique, Istomin again carries his musical reputation abroad this week in a four-month, 44-concert tour of Australia...
Five weeks ago, angered at the Japanese for breaking off peace treaty talks in London, the U.S.S.R. imposed severe controls on Japanese salmon fishing in the Okhotsk Sea, the western Bering Sea and parts of the North Pacific (see map) during the four-month spawning season. The prohibition put a merciless squeeze on Japan's fishing industry, which provides Japan's basic food supply. Aggressive Japanese fishermen once ranged the whole Pacific at will, but Japan now finds herself hemmed in by restricted areas...
This week, as Hollywood's trade talk has long prophesied, 20th Century-Fox's Production Boss Darryl F. Zanuck, one of moviedom's best-preserved (53) boy wonders, stepped out for what was billed as a four-month lunch. Announced Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras: "It is contemplated that the details of an agreement for an independent production unit to be headed by Mr. Zanuck will be worked out between him and the company...
Movie Pioneer Zanuck had a world of know-how for setting up an independent unit in his four-month leave of absence. His "temporary" replacement: Oscar-Winning Producer Maurice ("Buddy") Adler, 47 (From Here to Eternity...
Dreams. General Motors' 1956 Motorama opened a four-month, coast-to-coast run in Manhattan with five new "dream cars," plus the gas-turbined Firebird II (TIME, Dec. 26) and the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, a 1955 experimental model scheduled to go into production in August. The aluminum-roofed Brougham (base price: $8,500) is G.M.'s answer to Ford's Continental Mark II, and features such gadgets as a driver's seat that pivots outward for easy access. Highlights of the dream cars: Chevrolet's Impala, a five-passenger hardtop version...