Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking a ten-day Thanksgiving holiday in Indian-summery Augusta, Ga., President Eisenhower spent his working hours in the plain little second-floor office set up for him above the golf pro's shop at the Augusta National course. Into the office flowed messages updating the President on the twists and turns of a new crisis: the Russian push to end four-power occupation of Berlin (see FOREIGN NEWS). Whatever the Russian maneuvers meant, there was only one course for the U.S.: to stand steady. Announced President Eisenhower through Press Secretary James Hagerty: "Our firm intentions in West Berlin...
With profits recovering, many a board of directors saw fit to pass on to stockholders a traditional holiday treat: an extra year-end dividend. P. Lorillard Co., still riding high on the sales of Kent cigarettes, voted a 95? extra, bringing dividends to $4 v. $1.95 in 1957. Extra dividends and 2-for-1 stock splits were approved by Pet Milk and Kellogg Co.; growing drug sales gave Chas. Pfizer & Co. stockholders a higher dividend, a year-end extra of 60? and a proposed 2½-for-1split...
...Christmas this year, Lockheed and most other planemakers, Continental Oil Co.. Diamond Alkali are mailing letters wishing one and all a very merry holiday, but please do not send any gifts to our employees. Boeing Airplane, U.S. Steel, California Packing, Cutter Laboratories, Morri-son-Knudsen Co. and Dresser Inc. have similar policies, though they do not send out a formal letter. Former General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice did not go that far in laying down a rule of thumb to guide his people but he did send around a memo that no G.M. man should accept a gift...
...small head, great height and bolted rigidity invest him, as he jerks and jolts and fidgets through his films, with the marvelously absurd demeanor of an Eiffel Tower out for a Sunday stroll. But from his solitary eminence, Moviemaker Tati (Jour de Fête, Mr. Hulot's Holiday) takes a solemn view of the comic art and the contemporary scene. "Look what is happening to us," he glooms. "This specialization. Depersonalization is taking all the human meaning out of our daily life. A man used to be proud of the way he could drive. Now the car drives...
When you saw Hulot's Holiday, you got belly-laughs from Tati's portrayal of the Hulot personality. The whole responsibility of making the situations comic was his. But when you see My Uncle, the comedian Tati is solidly supported by script-writer Tati, and expertly guided by the director, also Tati. This makes for more humor, and subtler, and for a more acceptable cinematic whole...