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Since these gaudy monsters make a lot of noise, they are ordinarily subject to strict police regulations. Only 15 may be on the streets at one time, no grinder may play within 300 meters of a colleague, and none may play after dark, or for more than ten minutes in the same spot. But last week the lid was off. For the second time in five years, university students organized a contest and 17 barrel organs were lined up in a big, open square in the heart of the city...
...easy to transform a good play into a good movie. Perhaps someone will someday invent a "play-grinder" so that movie makers can insert a good drama, turn a crank and pull out a different, but equally good, movie. But since there is no such machine now, producers and directors must use their own judgment in deciding what will be effective for the screen. Stanley Kramer and Laslo Benedek have guessed wrong in Death of a Salesman...
Printed on softly highlighted gold chloride paper, the photographs showed with equal clarity Paris' elegant mansions and lean-to shanties, her fashionably dressed strollers and her ragpickers. Among the finest: a warmhearted study of a blind organ grinder accompanying a bright-faced young street singer, deadpan views of the cluttered windows of a toupee maker and hairdresser, sailor-hatted moppets at play in the Luxembourg Gardens, a plump bakery girl in leg-of-mutton sleeves pushing her wicker cart, a crew of pavers at work on a Paris street...
Then, still whole, but looking a little as if he had escaped from an enormous meat grinder, Auriol was sped north to Canada. New York, a city which gulps up princes and Presidents like gumdrops and remembers almost nobody, was rumbling away as if nothing had happened...
...than when seen. To bring this finding to the attention of radio broadcasters, he thoughtfully sent a copy of his paper to CBS. Paul Kesten, then CBS vice president in charge of advertising and sales promotion, pounced on Stanton's report as "good red meat for my meat grinder," wired him an offer of a research job at $50 a week...