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...handled $242 million worth of appliance paper and personal loans; it would now be able to use Avco's good connections to raise more capital. "Dick" Wilson runs Avco with easy informality, says, "We try to operate with a minimum of fuss and paper." He and President James Kerr, 46, have adjoining offices, never use memos when casual conversation will...
...opened three weeks ago to clamorous raves. Gilroy was welcomed as "a major playwright." Walter Kerr said it is "quite the most interesting new American play to be offered on Broadway this season." Yet it is playing to audiences that could fit into a few lifeboats. Broadway cries out for excellence, but often sinks it when it comes along...
...Clark Kerr, president of the University of California...
Into an elegant manse atop the white cliffs of England's south coast ventures Deborah Kerr, beautifully coiffed and dressed for a royal weekend, doing her primmest impersonation of a gentlewoman fallen upon difficult days. Indeed, no one would suspect that she is a convicted murderess but recently released from prison. So Dame Edith Evans hires Deborah to tend her garden -where nothing grows-and to keep an eye on Granddaughter Hayley Mills...
...Bagnold a framework on which to hang some illuminating asides about "the astonishment of life" and life's wasted possibilities. But Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes sticks doggedly to the substance of a story that was all shadows, revealing a sure instinct for the nonessential. In this version, Governess Kerr and Butler Mills are obviously made for each other and for a formula fadeout. The younger Mills, abrim with mental health and ebullient spirits and thus strikingly miscast, suggests that she alone knows what it is that makes this Garden grow. Potash? Peat moss? Lime? No, just gobs and gobs...