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Alfred N. (for Nu*) Steele is a 51-year-old executive who keeps a bottle on his desk and takes frequent swigs from it, even when he has visitors in his office. The bottle contains Pepsi-Cola, the drink that Steele took over two years ago when Walter Mack was kicked upstairs to chairman (later he left the company). At the time, Pepsi had gone flat: earnings were down 78% from their peak, dividends had been stopped. Since then, President Steele has proved that he has plenty of bounce to every ounce of his 208 Ibs. Last week he reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: More Bounce | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...After his father's college fraternity, Sigma Nu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: More Bounce | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Despite its suggestive title and an unusually fraudulent advertising campaign. For Men Only is the relatively straight story of a college fraternity--Omega Nu. As such it marks the first half-way honest attempt to illustrate some ridiculous and sadistic aspects of fraternity initiations; unfortunately the film wanders off into a side-plot that softens its impact...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: For Men Only | 2/5/1952 | See Source »

...this point For Men Only dilutes its story with such exagerated side-plots as the attempt of Omega Nu's president to trump up a morals charge against the professor. But in the course of this sidetrack, we get a picture of the college administration performing various acrobatic hush-up operations to prevent "the alumni's pens from freezing in their checkbooks...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: For Men Only | 2/5/1952 | See Source »

...right, has used but two live actors. All the other parts are played by cleverly carved wooden figurines. Using animated cartoon technique, Trnka filmed each frame of the movie separately-taking as many as twenty shots for a simple movement of an arm. The production is in Nu-Agfa color, which lends a soft, warm tone to the action...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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