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...story, as the film tells it, is a sort of magnolia-strewn Jane Eyre. The hero (Yul Brynner) is a gloomy and passionate young man. The heroine (Joanne Woodward) is his ward, a gay young sprig on a rotten family tree. The Compsons have been drunk for a couple of generations, and have long since sold their birthright for a mess of corn liquor. The only thing left is the peeling old plantation house, and there the last of the Compsons live on the charity of the hero, who has become a Compson by adoption and is determined to redeem...
...tape products, while Seattle's Simpson Timber Co. will content itself-and many a housewife-with a box of Christmas wreaths and greens. Dozens of others will cut it out altogether. The Bank of America is just sending cards-after all, the thought is what counts. Some, like Magnolia Petroleum Co.. will pass even that token...
...Reynolds building in full scale. Even with the three-story office building's satiny aluminum trim, Virginians found much that was familiar. The courtyard was paved with familiar red brick, and the moon shone down on a five-jet fountain, holly bushes and a 40-ft. magnolia tree. But inside they found 14-ft.-high executive offices with cherry-paneled walls on which hung such moderns as Picasso and Clyfford Still. On the east and west facades were 880 huge aluminum louvers geared by a master clock to foil the sun from now until...
...start with the parade, which stopped traffic cold in the Loop for four hours and a half. Maybe 12,000 people marched-some counted 46 floats and close to a hundred bands-but not one too many of those luscious-legged drum majorettes from such towns as Magnolia, Ark. and Kitchener, Ont. Later in the week the wives had plenty of time to spend money in the department stores. In between the boisterous, briefest business sessions, the men got to a big league game at Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 7). The kids danced to a big band...
...afford to gamble. They are there-in force. El Paso Natural Gas built a $750,000 division headquarters to operate the pipeline, has expanded it three times since 1952. This week or next, Shell Oil moves into a $500,000 headquarters, while Phillips Petroleum, Humble, Superior, Union, Carter, Gulf, Magnolia, Continental, Skelly and half a dozen other majors all have sizable operations...