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...Buenos Aires, 300 gate-crashers tried to jam into a with-credentials-only press conference held one morning in a hotel. The star attraction: Italy's full-blown Cinemactress Gina (Bread, Love and Dreams) Lollobrigida (TIME, Aug. 16), in the Argentine as an official guest of one of her fans, President Juan PerÓn. Hearing the restive tumult from those barred at the door, Gina melted the newsmen by asking: "Why do they love me so much?" After visiting the presidential mansion, Gina purred: "I realize now why people love PerÓn so much...
...jobs in their provinces would continue to go .to the locals. But the regime has already installed its men as governors of the four West Pakistan provinces, and they will cooperate in the provincial dissolution. The princely rulers-including the Khan of Kalat, the Wali of Swat and the Jam Saheb of Las Bella-noting the direction of the wind, obediently consented that their states should be wiped...
...prove that disaster has struck, a publicity agent says of a movie mogul, "I could tell something was wrong because he was eating as though the Labor Government had just been elected unanimously." It is not really surprising that the mogul's style of eating (he was putting jam on toast) lacked the particular characterization called for. What is worse, all of Mankiewicz's witticisms are given such arch delivery that one expects Jack Webb's orchestra to underline each one with...
...symphonic parts of the work were less exciting, but everybody, from the musicians onstage to the last hipster in the auditorium, had a fine time. Conductor Reiner, who started off his career as a percussionist, was so pleased that he took time off during a rehearsal for an impromptu jam session (see cut). Chicago News Critic Irving Sablosky welcomed the concert as a "meeting place ... for twelve-tone music and its more popular cousin, 'progressive jazz' . . . This wasn't the end, man, but it was an interesting beginning...
...York critics like to call "delightfully naughty." Unfortunately Black-Eyed Susan lacks the subtleties of its predecessor; the author is too consciously daring. Instead of appearing as a sage of the boudoir, he seems more like the little boy who has just pulled a successful raid on the jam...