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...rubbernecks who think New York is a great place to visit but would hate to live there-and never get tired of saying so. In this picture Scenarist Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin, who also wrote the 1950 Broadway comedy that his script is borrowed from, feeds the out-of-town customers a mess of their own sour grapes, along with a generous helping of sex, sentiment, sadism and smartchat...
Last week, refusing to abandon the town where he had spent his whole life, Max Kaufmann was eking out a precarious living from out-of-town customers for his trucking and taxi services. Bewildered and plaintive, he wails: "I stayed out of politics. I only told the truth...
...sense of unreality hung over the once-busy city room, which had been turned into a sort of employment agency to help ex-staffers get jobs. On one side of the newsroom a bulletin board listed some 200 job offers in Cleveland industry, but few newspaper openings. Out-of-town papers, e.g., the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, sent personnel representatives to interview ex-News reporters, many of whom discovered that they were considered too old to pick up good newspaper jobs. Said one ex-Newswoman: "I feel like a corpse who can hear, and is lying listening to everybody...
Stores will stress high fashion rather than low price in their spring promotions. "What women want these days is quality," said Merchandising Manager Sophy Tepperman to out-of-town buyers. But women-and their husbands-have to pay the price for it. "You just can't expect to find the same quality in a $29.95 dress as you did five years ago." Between the price upcreep and the new desire for better things, retailers expect first-half sales to rise about...
With the killer at large. Birmingham quickly became "Terror City" to London's flashy press. The Aston Villa soccer team canceled an out-of-town match because the wives of the members would not be left alone. Nurses on the night shift in all local hospitals were escorted to and from work in special buses, and movie usherettes ganged together rather than walk home alone. But the brutality of the murder was not the only thing that shocked Britain last week. The other was the strange behavior of the passengers...