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There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms...
...meter that lost ignominiously to the U.S.'s Weatherly in 1962. That debacle cost Multimillionaire (newspapers, radio and TV) Packer an estimated $675,000-hardly enough to dent his enthusiasm. Last year he spent about $150,000 to have Gretel rebuilt for another try, but that came to nought (TIME, January 27) when a brand new Aussie challenger, Dame Pattie, convincingly trounced Gretel in a series of shakedown races off Sydney. Nothing would do then except to rebuild Gretel yet another time. Back she went to the yard, where, at a cost of $44,800, shipwrights stripped...
...bids for quality within their own form and stay in the black, and that, as he puts it, "if you are going to manufacture anything, you ought to have the finest plant and facilities." But the heavy financial investments needed to create such an entity would be for nought without a special flair for sensing what is acceptable to the public-for that, ultimately, accounts for success in the entertainment world. This Lew Wasser man has to a unique degree, and it has helped him bring Hollywood back from the margin of extinction...
Since plot is nought, Ball relies on Buddy Hackett for a nightlong transfusion of comic relief. He can fire a salvo of laughter with the whites of his eyes, and step on a dud line so that it explodes, but he has to work so hard to be playful that it kills the fun. Apart from Hackett, only Luba Lisa comes out of this Coney Island carnage with talent and personality arrestingly intact. Moving like a sexy-hexy wind-up doll, with the voice of a Jewish Chatty Cathy and the body of Salome, she gives the impression of being...
...Superior General of the 33,000-member Society of Jesus (Jesuits) since 1946; of complications following a stroke; in Rome. An austere Belgian, Janssens was best known for the General Congregation he called in 1957 to propose that his own absolute authority be diluted, but which came to nought after Pope Pius XII warned that obedience should not be replaced by "a 'democratic equality' in which subjects argue with their superiors...