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...Pickwick (freely adapted from Charles Dickens by Stanley Young) transfers The Pickwick Papers very pleasantly to the stage. What results, to be sure, is no longer exactly The Pickwick Papers: in writing for the theater, Playwright Young has been forced to domesticate one of the most gallivanting and helter-skelter of narratives, and hence to sacrifice a good deal of its hearty coaching flavor and its wildly exuberant fun. Moreover, in the act of boiling down the contents of the book, he has scrambled them as well. But if this is a thinner-blooded Pickwick, it is also a more...
...Troubles. At Martin, Wonder Boy Bunker will have to perform wonders. Last year, though the company had a backlog of $400 million, it lost an estimated $22 million. Part of Martin's troubles stern from its helter-skelter expansion after Korea. Its work force mushroomed from 7,500 to 23,000; the average length of employment among its workers dropped from twelve years to six months. Turnover jumped from 12% to 70%, and absenteeism soared...
Critics who may object to such a choice of exports from the U.S. are likely to be reminded that most of their predecessors stuffily condemned every new art movement since Manet. Yet there is nothing really new about U.S. abstractionism. It is just more helter-skelter than the kind practiced in Europe ever since World...
...earlier films, 1942's My Favorite Blonde. But for all these heavy mortgages, Hope and his five writers pay a good rate of comic interest: rapid-fire gags, uproarious burleyque bits such as those that enrich Broadway's current Top Banana, and an oldfashioned, helter-skelter movie chase in which Hedy drives a fire truck through old Tangier with Hope perilously clinging to its raised ladder...
...idolized. In the field his Afrika Korps fought for him with matchless enthusiasm. Even sweeter to a professional soldier, perhaps, was the respect that he inspired in his enemies. Winston Churchill praised him in the House of Commons while Rommel was in the act of driving the British helter-skelter across North Africa. In the midst of the great North African campaign, General (now Field Marshal) Auchinleck acknowledged the Rommel legend in a general order to his troops: he warned them against believing that Rommel was a magician with supernatural powers...