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...Fortnum & Mason and boss of Britain's huge Allied Bakeries, who is known throughout the empire as "the Barnum of bread." If ABC stockholders approve, Baker Weston will pay $8,120,000 for ABC, one of England's biggest low-cost restaurant businesses, second only to Lyon's Corner House chain. Through Allied Bakeries, Weston already controls the United King dom's biggest bakery chain (10% of all Britain's bread, 20 million biscuits a day), with 1954 sales of $154 million and profits of $12,600,000. Overseas, subsidiaries and independent companies carry...
...reinforce the 10,000 soldiers already in Algeria. French armored columns pursued the terrorists up deep ravines in the mountains, with fighter planes for cover. In the cities, known nationalist hangouts were raided, more than 175 suspects jailed. Even some homes of North Africans living in Marseille and Lyon were searched...
...director for Arcadia is Lyon Phelps, and if the meshing of the three main performances was his idea, he did an excellent job. Otherwise, pacing and blocking pretty well account for themselves, although neither is particularly fascinating...
...Angel (Tues., 10:30 p.m., CBS-TV) stars a quiet, wry, young (26) comedian named Orson Bean who has a happy way with a joke. On a set simulating Manhattan's Blue Angel nightclub, Bean casually introduces a few expert acts (including, on one program, Comic Leo De Lyon, who can whistle and hum two songs at once) and spends the rest of the all-too-brief half an hour in bland comedy. Example: the prizes for a contest run by the National Kumquat Growers' Association - $5,000 worth of sneakers (size 17E), six miles of dental floss...
...French speaking rule broke down gradually during the year," Miss Lyon said. "Most of the girls are not taking courses in French, and since they spend very little time in the dorm, they have too few occasions to practice...