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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hall; $3.95), Mae had perfected her inimitable style: the silken walk that suggests the meshing of superbly machined parts, the languid glance, the., lethargic but meaningful gestures, and the tantalizing drawl employed with devastating effect in sybaritic phrases such as "Beulah, peel me a grape," or "Come up 'n' see me sometime...
...n the Senate, tacked to the foreign-aid appropriation a bipartisan rider that was the session's only serious civil rights move by either party: a two-year extension of the President's Civil Rights Commission. Result of the rider: a Saturday night filibuster by Southern Democrats, delaying adjournment into this week but not changing the outcome...
...better the junket, the worse the show" is an axiom in the entertainment business. Movie and TV companies have lately transported planeloads of correspondents to Ireland (for the premiere of Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People), to Tucumcari, N. Mex. (for the shooting of CBS-TV's Rawhide), and to practically anywhere else a travel-minded reporter would want to go. The latest and possibly most lavish junket was under way last week when ABC-TV took eleven reporters and four pressagents to Hawaii to publicize its new, $3,600,000, hour-long...
...rival camp, Chevrolet's Boss Edward N. Cole showed off his compact, rear-engine Corvair. Compared with Ford's Falcon, the Corvair is shorter (wheelbase: 108 in. v. Falcon's 109½ in.), lower (4 ft. 3 in. v. 4 ft. 6½ in.) narrower (66.9 in. v. 70 in.), less powerful (80 h.p. v. 90 h.p.). Compared with the standard Chevy, the Corvair is one-third lighter (2,375 Ibs. v. 3,760 Ibs.), will burn 25% to 40% less gas, sell for about $225 less than the cheapest Chevy when it goes into the showrooms...
Anatomy of a Murder. Lee Remick and James Stewart are slickly professional in this adaptation of 1958's most physiological bestseller, yet even they cannot compete with a cinema (but not TV) newcomer from Boston named Joseph N. Welch-a lawyer by training...