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Sugar was in a nut house all last week. Even Government bureaus bickered with one another...
...they anted up hard cash to back their optimism, pushed stock prices to the highest level since early March. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.64 points to 104.52; even the lowly utilities edged forward. Gains of the week: Bethlehem Steel, 2¼ points; Allied Chemical, 7½; Beech-Nut, 6½; Eastman Kodak, 5¼; American Telephone, 3⅝; Westinghouse, 3⅜; General Motors, 1⅝; Singer Sewing Machine, 10¼; Philip Morris...
...Privy Council in London-to pull the battlers apart, get them to sign a truce. Last March this tribunal decided a four-year-old Canadian suit, bluntly told Coca-Cola it had no exclusive right to the word "cola," because it came from the African cola (or kola) nut, was thus public property...
...angel. The show opened in Santa Barbara in February and so outraged that staid community that the city council met. Good Night Ladies thereupon scrammed to San Francisco for a week, clicked, stayed five. When it lit out for Chicago it had already earned back its $6,000 nut, has netted a weekly $6,000 to $7,000 ever since. Rosen thinks it will run a year there. He is not even thinking about Broadway...
...Favorite Blonde (Paramount) is sun-kissed Madeleine Carroll, nut-brown as a honey bear from her recent Bahaman excursion (TIME, March 9). This time she is the favorite of Comic Bob Hope, who blissfully lets her kick him around for ten reels of good slapsticky melodrama which all concerned seem to enjoy...