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Died. Al (for Alexander) Lichtman, 69, pioneer film distributor, onetime president of United Artists, vice president of M-G-M and 20th Century-Fox (executive producer of Boys Town, The Wizard of Oz); of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles. Two years ago, ailing from asthma and heart trouble, Hungarian-born Lichtman retired from Fox, holed up in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, quietly went to work on a story which no one wanted. A war novel, it had been kicking around producers' offices for about eight years, was considered too diffuse and sprawling for the screen. Lichtman...
...railroads. Faced with over-regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission and increasingly tough competition from trucks and airlines, they have not been able to earn the money they need to keep up the kind of service the U.S. expects and demands. In January, said Pennsylvania President James M. Symes, gross revenues slipped 15.5% from a year ago to $69.4 million, leaving the line with its third monthly deficit ($2,527,222) in a row. And to underscore the point last week, New Haven President George Alpert, who likes to fiddle to take his mind off his road's troubles...
...proxy war, said management will solicit proxies from stockholders for the first time. But it will have to battle some of the brightest lights of U.S. business. Among the rebelling foundation trustees-appointed by R. H. Kress himself-are New York Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston; Frank M. Folsom, executive committee chairman of Radio Corp. of America; and Harold H. Helm, board chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank...
...Kent) designed a filter that let in only i milligram of nicotine, 9 milligrams of tar; unfortunately, the sales did not reflect the effectiveness, and last year, said the committee, Kent's new filter let through double this nicotine and tar content. Similarly, Liggett & Myers' L & M brand had only 1.5 milligrams of nicotine, 11 milligrams of tar in 1955; two years later, L & M showed almost a 70% increase in nicotine, more than a 33% increase in tar. "Amazingly," noted the committee, "it then announced 'the miracle of the modern miracle...
...Accuse! (M-G-M). The Dreyfus Affair was a tremendous social and political upheaval that rumbled on long after the legal proceedings (1894-1906) were closed, and in the process almost shattered France's Third Republic. In / Accuse!, the sordid, splendid story is told on the screen for at least the sixth time. Mistakes have been made in the picture: the political repercussions of the affair are scarcely suggested, and the fateful social struggle which it dramatized is fobbed off with some anti-Semitic dialogue and a few shots of screaming headlines and howling mobs. What survives...