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...grandmother. The well-heeled visitor was one of 16 Russian church leaders who showed up at the National Council of Churches' General Board meeting, to be greeted coldly by some protesting right-wing fundamentalists and warmly by two of the nation's most prestigious Protestants: J. Irwin Miller, layman president of the council and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A...
...Young Inc., Springfield, Mass., $94,574; Dome Chemicals Inc., N.Y.C., $93,522; J. T. Baker Chemical Co., Phillipsburg, N.J., $89,000; Eaton Laboratories, Norwich, N.Y., $65,000; Irwin Neisler & Co., Decatur, Ill., $50,000; S.S.S. Co., Atlanta, $37,554; Hynson, Westcott & Dunning Inc., Baltimore, $24,400; S. B. Penick & Co., N.Y.C., $20,000; Armour & Co., Chicago, $10,000; Savage Laboratories Inc., Bellaire, Texas, $9,312; Potts Dade Reagents Inc., Miami, $8,427; Arnar-Stone Laboratories, Mount Prospect, Ill., $8,000; International Chemical Corp., N.Y.C...
...hears only the faintest of applause; his publisher wants to know when he is going to turn out a novel. Collections of short stories once helped launch such writers as Hemingway and Katherine Anne Porter, but these days short stories are worth little in royalties and less in prestige. Irwin Shaw, for instance, is known less as one of the country's best short-story writers than as one of its least distinguished novelists...
Adapted from a bestselling novel by a supersalaried screenwriter named Irwin Shaw, Two Weeks tells the story of a cinemale (Kirk Douglas) who goes barreling down Easy Street, runs into a mental block, spends six years on the reassembly line, comes out with a brand-new head, starts warily down the comeback trail. He finds it jammed with competition, potholed with passions, mined with animosities...
...goggling, their parents will be giggling-especially if they happen to have read the tall tale by Jules Verne from which the film is taken. Less than six decades after the author's death, his fantasies of the future read like parodies of the past, and Director Irwin Allen wisely plays for parody what he cannot turn to thrills. He laughs up his gasbag at the Vernerable tale. He pumps the soggy old Balloon so full of hot air that it finally gets off the ground...